The New York Rangers begin Thanksgiving Week looking up at the rest of the Metropolitan Division after losing their past four games and completing a 0-3-0 road trip with a 3-2 loss to the Utah Mammoth on Saturday.
It’s not that the Rangers were awful last week – take away two empty-net goals in a 6-3 loss to the NHL-leading Colorado Avalanche and they came up on the wrong end of three one-goal losses. But when the time came to make the plays necessary to win, the Rangers didn’t make them. That was especially true in Salt Lake City on Saturday night, when they wasted a terrific effort by goaltender Jonathan Quick.