CALGARY, Alberta — There was a night to sleep on it, a calendar year to flip, some frozen tundra to traverse — and still, the loss is upsetting.
The Rangers weren’t exactly reeling and weren’t exactly over it when they arrived in Calgary for a practice less than 24 hours after their thrilling comeback-that-wasn’t, a 7-5 loss to the Oilers in Edmonton on Tuesday night. The Blueshirts used New Year’s Eve to almost be the first team in NHL history to overcome a six-goal deficit, their’s being a 6-0 hole late in the second period that was turned into 6-5 with 3:45 remaining in regulation.