Things certainly haven’t been going the New York Rangers way lately and, true to form, only two minutes into the game it was the road Philadelphia Flyers who struck first on Tuesday night at the Garden.
It was hard to point fingers on this one as it appeared to be some simple puck luck on a broken play. A Flyers defenseman laced a shot wide of the net and fourth-liner Jordan Weal was able to redirect the puck into the net past Henrik Lundqvist.
But despite the early ominous sign, it was the Rangers who put their goal-scoring shoes on in taking the contest by a beat down score of 5-1.