The Rangers came gunning for the two-time champs on their home ice.
Still, even while outplayed, even while the Blueshirts’ marquee players never got to their A-game under even the most generous of definitions, the Rangers were 30:16 away from the finish line with a two-goal lead. It is difficult to escape the sense that the good guys let the champs off the hook. The Rangers, though, did not see it that way. I would not have expected anything different.
“I think we played a pretty good road game and put ourselves in a pretty good spot going into the third,” Kreider said. “I think what we’ll take from this game is the things we can do better that’s under our control.” The Blueshirts can sure do a far, far better job of getting the puck in deep and going to work below the hash marks. They can do a far, far better job of possessing the puck in the offensive zone. Andrei Vasilevskiy was sharper than he’d been at the Garden, when he allowed nine goals on 62 shots, but the Blueshirts rarely tested the netminder at five-on-five.
The fact is, opposed for the most part by the Anthony Cirelli-Brandon Hagel-Alex Killorn checking unit, the Kreider-Zibanejad-Frank Vatrano line was overwhelmed at five-on-five, barely able to mount an attack and always pushed into a defensive posture. Ryan Strome went out of the game early in the second with a lower-body issue, and that did not help the five-on-five cause, but it’s not as if No. 16 had been playing with much authority until that point.
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