It was a week of pain in the Metropolitan Division. From Jack Hughes to Adam Fox and Nicklas Backstrom, Sean Couturier and Igor Shesterkin, teams saw significant hits to their club that will leave a lasting effect in the days and weeks ahead. Here’s how the division standings look this morning.
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Let’s go around the division to quickly recap the latest, with records from the last week in parenthesis.
New York Rangers (2-0-1): The Rangers have been finding themselves in close games lately, taking one-goal victories this week over Winnipeg and Carolina before blowing a third period lead and falling 5-4 in a shootout to Minnesota last night to end a six-game winning streak.