The New York Rangers officially will not go 82-0-0 this season, and you can blame the Winnipeg Jets for that. The Blueshirts, playing their third game in four days and in the second game of a back-to-back, were defeated by a score of 4-1.
New York had a tough time getting things going, and they very much looked like a team that played the previous night, as a fresh and rested Winnipeg squad was able to control the pace for the first 20:00. As bad as things were for the 1st, the Rangers turned a corner in the 2nd period and Dryden Hunt scored at 3:55 to tie things up a goal a piece.