Bantering Points: 12/18/24

Here are today's news and links:

Rangers News:

Highlights: NSH 2, NYR 0 (5:03 video via NHL.com)

Game Recap: Mired in a string of time that feels like a new rock bottom follows every game, the Rangers were shut out by the worst team in the league to drop yet another game and fall to .500 (CBS)

Mollie Walker chatted with Kaapo Kakko, who made it very clear that he was not happy with the decision for him to sit as a healthy scratch on Sunday (NY Post)

Walker also heard from Mika Zibanejad as New York's second-longest tenured player continues to come to grips with reduced ice time as of late (NY Post)

Colin Stephenson writes up the latest sloppy effort that has dropped the Blueshirts to 3-11-0 in their last 14 games (Newsday)

Vincent Mercogliano offers his takeaways from yet another poor showing from Peter Laviolette's squad (LoHud)

Peter Baugh ponder$ how the Ranger$ will proceed with their gha$tly play $howing no $ign of $topping anytime $oon (The Athletic)

Lucas Standel lists three reasons the Blueshirts have fallen to the depths they currently find themselves at (The Hockey Writers)

Remy Mastey relays word from Peter Laviolette, who addressed his job security prior to Tuesday's loss (The Hockey News)

Around the NHL:

The Winnipeg Jets agreed to a three-year, entry level contract with forward "Kevin He", making him the first Chinese-born player to sign with an NHL team (NBC Sports)

The Blueshirts were not the only New York hockey team to have a rough Tuesday as the Islanders were shut out by the Hurricanes, and the Buffalo Sabres dropped their eleventh consecutive game in ugly fashion (Sportsnet)

San Jose Sharks head coach Ryan Warsofsky was fined $25,000 for inappropriate conduct during his team's game against the Utah Hockey Club on Saturday (TSN)