How low can the New York Rangers go?
It looked like they might have hit bottom on Thursday, when they played Swiss cheese defense, got middling goaltending from Igor Shesterkin, their best player, and lost 6-5 in overtime at home to the previously winless San Jose Sharks.
Coach Mike Sullivan upbraided his team afterward, saying the Rangers might have taken the Sharks for granted and that such a thing couldn’t happen again.
But it did.
If anything, New York’s 5-1 loss to the woeful Calgary Flames on Sunday was even worse.