Things are falling apart for the Rangers. Playing without their leading scorer and one of their top defensemen, and facing a Devils team that hadn’t played in 16 days, the Rangers looked out of sorts as they fell behind three times and ultimately lost, 5-2, closing their seven-game homestand with their fourth straight loss.
Along the way, they lost another player to injury, as defenseman Jacob Trouba did not play in the third period after suffering an upper-body injury.
The Blueshirts were already without Artemi Panarin, who missed his second game with a lower-body injury, and Trouba’s partner, rookie defenseman K’Andre Miller, who was out with an upper-body injury.