Why the Rangers’ inconsistency might be around for a while

The sample size is big enough now to think that this is just about whom the Rangers are — they’re not as bad as their worst, and they’re not as good as their best.

For the youngest team in the league — have you heard that they’re young? — of course there are going to be extreme dips in play. And boy, have the Blueshirts taken some dips. Just in the past two weeks they have had losses against the Bruins and the Senators that were as ugly as one could imagine.

But in that same stretch, they beat the Lightning, they won at Nashville, and they had Henrik Lundqvist — have you heard that he’s not so young? — turn back the clock with two games in two nights that were absolute gems, especially the…