Following last night’s thrilling overtime victory over the New Jersey Devils, the New York Rangers were handed a 5-2 loss by the Columbus Blue Jackets. Given that the Rangers were coming off of a game last night, and having played a ton of hockey down the stretch, they were due for one of these games. The Blue Jackets were also coming off of a game last night, but this is only their second game back from their bye week so it likely didn’t affect them all that much.
The good news though, is that despite the circumstances, the Rangers did carry a decent portion of this game tonight.