LAS VEGAS — With 41 games played and 41 left on the schedule before Tuesday’s faceoff against the Vegas Golden Knights, the Rangers were roughly where they were projected to be this season by most accounts. But Henrik Lundqvist still believes his team is capable of better.
He has to.
“We just have to continue believing that we’re a good team and we have to work hard,’’ the 36-year-old goaltender said after a strenuous on-ice workout at T-Mobile Arena Tuesday morning. “I think we are where a lot of people expected us to be (a record of 17-17-7, for 41 points) and, realistically, maybe where we should be.