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Rangers make Madison Square Garden their home again

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Mark Herrmann

Herrmann has covered the Mets and Yankees since 1988, and has been Newsday’s national golf writer since 2002. Show More

No longer do they have to tell the Uber driver, “Just drop me off at Herald Square and I’ll walk from there.” Not any more do they have to hesitate when someone asks them where they work, only to stammer, “Oh, kind of in the neighborhood around Penn Station.” The Rangers no longer need be afraid of calling Madison Square Garden home.

That is the takeaway from their 4-2 first-round triumph over the Canadiens, capped by a 3-1 victory in midtown Saturday night.