Recap: Caps Blank Rangers, 4-0

The Rangers resumed their season after the holiday break with a Metro matchup against the Washington Capitals.

Even if you didn’t know about the break, you might have assumed it based on the sloppy start to the game. Everyone seemed a little discombobulated. The Rangers, the Caps, the officials, Sam– heck, even the clock glitched out. About halfway through the period, Ryan Lindgren and Chris Kreider were sent to the box on back-to-back weakish calls to give the Caps a minute forty of five-on-three. Washington didn’t need that long to convert, as Marcus Johansson jammed home a rebound that Jacob Trouba couldn’t clear. In the back half of the period, the pace took off after a Rangers…