Maybe it has been a little more volatile than they wanted, but no one around the Rangers organization could have rightfully expected that this season would be anything but inconsistent. Dressing the youngest team in the league, especially on the blue line, is inevitably going to create difficult growing pains.
So there will be nights like Monday, when the neophyte Blueshirts got ahead of themselves and mentally broke down, emotionally imploded and left the Garden with the scar of a 6-2 defeat at the hands of the Senators, who came in with the worst record in the conference.