New York Rangers’ passing began at the end of November and lasted for just over a month.
After spending months trying to catch up and get back to the playoffs, the situation grows terribly for Rangers when they host the Philadelphia Flyers on Wednesday evening.
Rangers (36-34-7, 79 points) was 12-4-1 to November 19 but then lost 15 out of 19 in an ugly picture.
After going on a 10-game points in January, the results between Rangers, who will go into their second last home game for at least one six-point deficit behind Montreal Canadiens for the second Wild-Card site enters Tuesday.
The last competition in New York’s 10-game points was a 6-1 route of the Flyers at Home Ice on January 23. Since then, Rangers is 12-14-3 in the last 29 races and even worse too late.
Rangers moved briefly to the playoffs on March 15 after a 4-0 road victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets. Since then, however, they are 3-6-1 in the last 10 after collapsing defensively in a span of 1:45 during the first period on the home ice when Tampa Bay Lightning made three times from close to the net to send Rangers to a 5-1 loss on Monday evening.
It was New York’s second straight loss with at least four goals and 11th this season. The last thing happened when Rangers ended with 39 shots on goal and only saw Mika Zibanejad make a power play, giving them four goals in the last 55 chances in the last 20 matches.
New York also allowed three Power-Play goals for the second straight game and opponents are 8-for-19 on the male advantage in the last six games.
“We have to win the games,” said New York -leading goal scorer Artemi Panarin. “We don’t. If we continue to play, we’ll miss the playoffs.”
“It’s no longer one to wait for it, where we win a game and wait to see what they do,” Rangers said forward Jonny Brodzinski. “We have to win out and we also need help. It (stinks) to be in this position.”
Flyers (31-37-9, 71 points) plays his fifth match since sliding coach John Tortorella and replaced him with Brad Shaw on March 27.
Philadelphia was within four points from the second Wild Card after a 2-1 road victory over Winnipeg Jets but entered a 2-10-1 tail to fall out of battle when tortorella expressed a reluctance to arrange a reconstruction team.
During Shaw, the Flyers are 3-1-0 and scored 17 goals in these games-five fewer than Tailspin under tortorella.
Philadelphia saw a winning line with three games stopped when its road lost the line reached six matches (0-5-1) with a 3-2 loss on Montreal on Saturday after it allowed three goals during the third period to be eliminated from the post-season for the fifth straight season.
“You’re up at someone who goes into the third on the road so I think it’s a good situation, I think all teams would take it,” said Philadelphia goalkeeper Samuel Ersson. “So obviously that (stinks). We couldn’t find a way to win the winnings.”
Tyson Foerster scored a power-play goal and has three goals since the coaching change after not scoring in its previous 14 matches. Ryan Poehling also did for the fourth time since the coaching is changing and has seven goals during his last eight matches.
Also playing well for Flyers is beginner Matvei Michkov, who made four times in a modest sex game points before Saturday.
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