After scoring one goal in their first four home games this season, the New York Rangers put up a five spot against the San Jose Sharks on Thursday night at Madison Square Garden. Yet, even that offensive explosion wasn’t enough to catapult the Rangers to their first win on home ice, after the Sharks defeated them 6-5 in overtime.
The Rangers (3-4-2) are now winless at MSG (0-4-1) and will remain that way through the season’s first month since they close out October with a long road trip out west. They fly to Calgary on Friday no doubt wondering how they didn’t come away with a victory against a Sharks team that hadn’t won at all in 2025-26, until Will Smith buried a Macklin Celebrini feed from the left circle 1:37 into overtime Thursday.