This is how hot the Rangers are right now: They beat the rival Islanders.
Filip Chytil scored 29 seconds into the game – becoming the first Rangers teenager to score a goal in five consecutive games – and the Rangers never looked back, ending their recent futility against their rivals in emphatic fashion, with a 5-0 win Wednesday at Madison Square Garden.
Goals by Cody McLeod and Neal Pionk (on the power play) gave the Rangers a 3-0 lead after one period, and Kevin Hayes took a neat little drop pass from Kevin Shattenkirk and walked in alone to tuck a backhander past goalie Robin Lehner to make it 4-0 after two, and the Rangers cruised to their third straight win, and their ninth in 11 games (9-1-1).