Rangers-Maple Leafs in review

Rangers 4, Maple Leaves 2.

Click here for the boxscore with links to the official game summary, etc.

Thoughts:

1) Welcome to the National Hockey League, where you can play a terrific game (for the most part) and lose one night, and play an awful game (for the most part) the next night and win.

2) Of course, when the opponent one night is the defending champ and a favorite to repeat, and the opponent the next night is just a national disaster, well …

3) Let’s get to the positive out of this Rangers win first. It’s a Big Picture win in this regard: Antti Raanta was fabulous. I really wondered after the Los Angeles game, when he sounded as if he’d lost all confidence, as if he no longer had any…