GREENBURGH, N.Y. — It was Blueshirts vs. white shirts Thursday on the MSG Training Center ice, sometimes five-on-five, sometimes five-on-four, all times working toward a rebound from a bad night in Pittsburgh and a fine finale Friday night before their mandatory Christmas break.
If any team needs a three-day break, it’s the Rangers.
When they face off against Minnesota at the Garden on Friday, it will mark their 10th game in 18 days and 36th overall in a condensed schedule. The Rangers “might have been a little bit tired” in the words of rookie left wing Jimmy Vesey when they put Antti Raanta in a 47-shot shooting gallery and fell to the Penguins, 7-2, Tuesday night.