Before tonight’s game against the Ottawa Senators, Coach Quinn stated that he wanted his team to start a “trend of playing the right way” and was confident that this could be the game to get the ball rolling. But it looks like the trend is going to have to wait, as the Rangers lost 4-1 to the Sens, in what was anything but a pretty game for the Blueshirts. The Rangers fell behind early and never found their way back in this one.
A key match-up in tonight’s game was Artemi Panarin vs Jean-Gabriel Pageau, who each entered tonight’s game with the hot hand for their team.