Source: New York Post
If this season ends up being different for the Rangers, if, by the middle of April and the end of the 84-game marathon, they end up finding themselves on the right side of the playoff cutline, then Thursday — with just over two minutes left, when nearly half of the Rangers’ bench spilled onto the ice to celebrate Igor Shesterkin’s empty-net goal — will serve as the lasting image for when it all started to shift. Access the Rangers beat like never before Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Mollie Walker about the inside buzz on the Rangers. tRY IT NOW Because throughout their 5-1 win against the Lightning, who, for the better part of the last eight years, have served as an Eastern Conference measuring stick, on Thursday, the blueprint for this iteration of the Blueshirts emerged.
