WINNIPEG – This can’t be the blueprint for the rest of the Rangers’ season, because if it is, it will end in April and not in May or June.
Alain Vigneault can keep highlighting the positive and defiantly insisting his team is “mentally strong,” but no one is questioning the intangible character of these men in red, white and blue. At issue is their unsustainable brand of disjointed hockey and their lack of tangible results, as in Friday night’s second straight loss, 5-2 to the Winnipeg Jets at the MTS Centre – the Rangers’ eighth regulation defeat in their past 13 games (3-8-2).