He has been getting ready for NHL opening nights for 15 years, the last 14 of them as his team’s starting goaltender. So Henrik Lundqvist understands how to go about his training camp business and how to evaluate his preparation.
He said, “I feel really good,” when I asked him before the Rangers’ Thursday night opener against the Jets at the Garden, and then I asked him whether he would ever say he didn’t feel good if that indeed was his self-evaluation.