There’s the eye test, there are the reams of available statistical and analytical information, and, ultimately, there are the standings by which to objectively evaluate a team’s performance.
There is a reason, after all, that they keep score.
And with nine games remaining, including Wednesday’s test at the Garden against the Bruins, the Rangers — despite all of the pockmarks and disappointments, despite dipping into too many valleys — not only don’t measure up all that badly, they are hardly about to apologize for a season in which they are seventh-overall in the NHL.
“You know, for a team to be able to have a season like we did last year or maybe like Washington is having this year, it takes a lot out of you and your group,”
Henrik Lundqvist told The Post following Tuesday’s practice.