Rangers defenseman K'Andre Miller reacts after he scored against the Panthers in the second period of an NHL game at Madison Square Garden on Monday. Credit: Kathleen Malone-Van Dyke
Coming off back-to-back road losses Friday and Saturday to Edmonton and Calgary, two of the top teams in the NHL, the Rangers found themselves returning home Monday night to face another heavyweight in the league-leading Florida Panthers, in their third game in four nights.
And if that wasn’t challenging enough, third line center Filip Chytil was unavailable to play, due to what the team was calling an upper-body injury.