ESPN.com · Oct 16, 2025
The NHL's shock teams: Who has under- and overperformed?
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Sports can provoke all sorts of emotions.
New York Rangers forward Mika Zibanejad, for example, couldn't decide whether to laugh or cry after his team was shut out in their first three home games of the season -- something that had never happened previously in NHL history.
Overall, the Rangers are currently 2-3-0 under new coach Mike Sullivan; but those two wins came against the Buffalo Sabres and Pittsburgh Penguins, so the jury is still out on whether the Rangers can be goal-scoring threats (who pumped in 10 over their pair of road victories) or if they can't covert against tougher competition (specifically in their own barn).