Rangers vs. Islanders: This is fine (seriously)

For years we wasted a metric ton of digital ink on this site explaining why winning wasn’t always the most important factor in a game. How the Rangers won the game, the context of how they played within that game, probably added more clarity in trying to forecast the sustainability for continued success. Getting out-chanced, out-shot, out-played but winning because Henrik Lundqvist was a god among men was not a long-term road that would work for the Rangers. Despite the crying and whining that we were being too negative, it never did work.

So it’s ironic that this has been flipped on its head in a way. Yes the Rangers are losing, yes the power play is struggling, yes the Rangers aren’t…