It all might sound like worn-out sports cliches, but it has a little more depth coming from the Rangers, having been there so recently.
“We’ve been on the other side, we have to understand that,” Martin St. Louis said Thursday, his Blueshirts preparing for Game 5 of their first-round series against the Penguins at the Garden on Friday night, up 3-1 in the best-of-seven with a chance to win and advance.
St. Louis and his team were down by the same margin to the Penguins in last season’s second round, and as the team came together after the sudden death of St.