All things considered, things could be a lot worse at Madison Square Garden. A mediocre team with a rookie head coach had the potential to be an outright disaster. That’s what the New York Rangers resembled after a month of play, a mess resembling garbage day in Manhattan. Over the course of the past two weeks, signs of life developed.
It took a real gut-wrenching loss to the Los Angeles Kings to get the team back from the brink. That loss brought back really bad memories for a group far removed from the Stanley Cup Final. David Quinn revealed that the team was disheartened in the game against the Calgary Flames.