Less than a week ago, the New York Rangers got into an ill-advised run-and-gun match with the Panthers at Madison Square Garden and were lucky to escape with a point. The team needs to get back to basics and focus on team defense and structure if they expect to have a chance.
The less said about the Tampa game the better. Let’s just chalk it up to youth and inexperience and a lack of discipline. David Quinn summed it up after the Tampa game. “We lost to a really good hockey team that was on their A game and we were far from on our A game…when you’re in the situations we’re in, that happens, you get the result we got tonight.