If this 107-point season wasn’t a colossal waste, it surely ended in colossal disappointment. The team across the River stole the Blueshirts’ destiny.
The Rangers’ Manifest Destiny never came close to fruition. The team that not only waited all season for the playoffs but told you so from the start of training camp, won three postseason games, seven fewer than last season when the Cinderella Blueshirts went to the conference finals.
It will be instructive to see whether Gerard Gallant — whose .662 points percentage in going 99-46-19 is the best in franchise history among coaches with at least 100 games as the bench boss — will conduct his postseason press briefing. “Talent doesn’t mean a thing,” Gallant said in what might have been a critique of the structure of his team. “It’s great to have talent, but you’ve got to play together and work together. Obviously, the four games that we lost, we had two goals. That’s the bottom line. You’re not going to win if you get two goals in four games.“I love to have talent, but you love to have work ethic and more forecheck and stuff like that. We just didn’t get it done.
Igor Shesterkin had a remarkable series. Chris Kreider did what he does, which is to score goals in the playoffs more often that any Ranger in franchise history, six of them in this round. But he also had a dreadful Game 7 and blamed himself for the defeat after a minus-four performance and committed the final turnover that led to Michael McLeod’s shorthanded goal that opened the scoring at 9:53 of the second period.
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