GREENBURGH, N.Y. – After a day off Tuesday, the Rangers practiced as usual Wednesday in preparation for another set of back-to-back games, beginning Thursday in Columbus, Ohio, with a game against the Blue Jackets.
But this isn't any run-of-the-mill back-to-back. No, not when the back end of it will be the night when Henrik Lundqvist’s No. 30 is retired to the Madison Square Garden ceiling before a game against the Minnesota Wild, and old pal Mats Zuccarello.
"I remember playing in a lot of those games, for (Mark) Messier, (Adam) Graves, for a lot of those guys,’’ Lundqvist told former teammate Steve Valiquette in an interview for MSG-TV that will air Friday evening.