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Coach’s challenge raises Rangers question: “What if?”

GREENBURGH – Alain Vigneault didn’t need to be reminded about it.

With the new coach’s challenge on goaltender interference plays, and the way that is being enforced this season, what might have been back in June, 2014 when Dwight King steamrolled Henrik Lundqvist with the Rangers up 4-2 in the third period of Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final?

“We were just talking about that,” Vigneault said Saturday. “We were saying ‘If that rule would have been in place at that time, we would have won that game’ because that changed the dynamics of that game.