Rangers pressing as frustrating winless home start reaches another historic low

Diseases have been cured.Animals have been cloned.

Men have walked on the moon.But who will live to see the Rangers win another game at Madison Square Garden? Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Mollie Walker about the inside buzz on the Rangers.More than one month since being shut out by the Penguins on opening night on Broadway, the Rangers are still searching for their first home win of the season, having extended their incomprehensible Garden skid to seven games (0-6-1) — clinching the franchise’s all-time worst season-opening winless streak — in Saturday night’s 5-0 loss the Islanders, which also ended a five-game win streak against their rival.After becoming the first team in NHL history to be held without a goal in its first three home games, the Rangers are now the first team in 98 years to be shut out in five of their first seven home games.“I feel like we’re pressing, we’re getting away from our game, we’re gripping onto our sticks a little bit too much,” Mika Zibanejad said.

“We’re professionals, we get paid, we’re supposed to be able to handle it, but we’re in it.We can’t feel sorry for ourselves.

We just got to find a way.“You want to build a feeling for teams coming in here that it’s going to be tough.”It borders on unfathomable.It would be embarrassing under any circumstances.

But it is made incalculably more surreal by the Rangers’ league-best road success (7-1-1).The Blueshirts were less than 24 hours removed from a convincing win at second-place Detroit, marking their fourth win in five games.Because of that, the Garden crowd brought a clean slate to their seats, their early cheers imbued with optimism.

The tension could have been released in the opening seconds, when Artemi Panarin nearly punched in the rebound of a Zibanejad slap shot.And again approaching the midway point of the first period, when Zibanejad unleashed a wrister that bounced off ...