Twenty games in, the Rangers are doing their best to rip up the expectations set for them before the season.
On a night they were heavily outshot, it hardly mattered as the Rangers capitalized on their chances and Henrik Lundqvist did the rest of the work in a 4-2 win over the Panthers on Saturday at the Garden.
The Blueshirts (10-8-2) won for the seventh time in their last nine games, continuing to exceed the preseason outlook for them with nearly a quarter of the season in the books. They were shredded defensively their last time out, giving up seven goals to the Islanders on Thursday, but made sure it didn’t turn into a slide.