New York Rangers Notes

* That was a bizarre game in almost every sense of the word. The Rangers went through spells where they were easily the most dominant team on the ice, and then stretches where they were by far the worst. Overall the possession game was pretty evenly split between both sides, but,

* That couldn’t have been a better return for Henrik Lundqvist. Expectations were manipulated to be sky high, and he somehow answered the call. I wrote about how Lundqvist doesn’t have a bar to reach for because he happens to be the bar, and that’s exactly what he

* One obligatory podcast note: The show will be at 9 p.m. tonight rather than 8. I have a work thing I have to go to because we don’t have enough money in the Patreon for me to buy that island yet. If you can’t catch it live

* All things consisted, that's both a hell of an effort and a hell of a win. The Rangers were down three very notable forwards (Rick Nash, Pavel Buchnevich and Mika Zibanejad), a solid contributor (Jimmy Vesey) and Matt Pumpel; a series of circumstances that required call ups to

* The only true positive to losing to the Islanders is that it creates such venom within the fanbase it might actually wake some people up. The Rangers weren't even particularly bad last night. They were down two forwards and Halak played out of his mind. That's

* Let’s just get this out of the way at the top. That might be the worst game I’ve seen Henrik Lundqvist play in a very long time. He overshot all his angles, had little control of his rebounds and let in a goal from the red line 18