Woeful Rangers offense wastes goalies throwback outing in loss to Red Wings that ends win streak
Jonathan Quick was back in Conn Smythe mode, extending the remarkable start to his age-39 season.If only his offense didn’t look past its prime again.Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Mollie Walker about the inside buzz on the Rangers.
The Rangers were outplayed.They were outshot 42-19.
Quick made so many of the mistakes irrelevant, single-handedly swinging momentum to give his team chances to avoid another lost night at home, but the veteran backup’s latest throwback effort was not enough, as the Rangers saw their three-game win streak snapped in a 2-1 loss to the Red Wings at Madison Square Garden.Despite Quick’s 40 saves, the Rangers (10-8-2) fell to 1-7-1 at home, following Lucas Raymond’s NHL ’94-style wraparound goal with 3:47 remaining.“Obviously, Quickie was unbelievable tonight,” said assistant coach David Quinn, who helped fill in for absent head coach Mike Sullivan (personal reasons).“It looked like we might be able to steal a point there as the game was evolving, and we just weren’t able to get it done.”Six days removed from their first home win of the season, the Rangers again looked like the team that got off to the worst home start in franchise history, while getting shut out in five of seven games.Despite facing a team that ranked 23rd in GAA (3.28) and 27th in save percentage (.882), the Rangers barely tested their former goaltender, Cam Talbot, needing more than six minutes to record their first shot on goal, then adding one more in the next six minutes.
In the final period, they were outshot 14-3.“We just didn’t get to our game,” Rangers captain J.T.Miller said.
“They did a good job of defending the looks we did get.… It wasn’t good enough.
They outplayed us.If it wasn’t for Quickie, that game could’ve been wide open.”Quick — who entered 3-1 with a 1.26 GAA and .950 save percentage — was brilliant in his first home start in more than a mo...