New York Rangers

Several abbreviated thoughts from Sunday’s 4-1 loss at the New York Rangers: --Nothing new we hadn’t seen before. Good purpose; mistake-prone. Good chances; no finish. Dialed-in goaltending; ugly goal. Ample problems, not as many answers. To spring a leak so early in the game, especially after se... Full Story

Tuesday’s game seemed poised for a wide shotsball discrepancy between a top shot-metric team that had been playing well at home and a visiting team depicted by statistics as doing a good job of holding the fort despite an assault on their goaltenders. Those predictions turned out to be almost 180 de... Full Story

Benefiting from standout goaltending and winning the game’s important moments, the LA Kings eked out an unlikely victory in which they saved their best hockey for the final 20 minutes and 25 seconds. Even the way the game ended was representative of both the Kings’ ability to steal one and of the br... Full Story