Regarding the Rangers, who at 6-2-2 have the most confounding record in the NHL:
1. Dan Girardi’s postgame analysis of both Sunday’s 4-1 victory over the Flames and the club’s uneven getaway seems to have included a window into the team’s soul, with the alternate captain saying, “We’ve got a good group of guys here that knows how to win — well, maybe not win it all, but knows how to win games … we know what it takes.”
It might have been a throwaway delivered in the most casual manner possible — understand, this was neither a speech nor a response to a direct question — but I never have heard a Ranger acknowledge the painful defeats of the past two springs with anything close to that kind of introspection.