NEW YORK — Championship windows are a funny thing; no one is ever really sure when they open, but everyone has a pretty good idea of when they close.
“I’m pissed off,” a blunt Rick Nash said after the New York Rangers lost Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Final 2-0 to the Tampa Bay Lightning on Friday night. “It feels like we had our best chance to get a championship and we lost.”
A look around the Rangers locker room at Madison Square Garden following the first Game 7 home loss in franchise history reveals that maybe Nash has a point; the 2014-15 Rangers were a win-now team that couldn’t win now, and it may never be this good again with this core.
Henrik Lundqvist, sitting dejectedly in his locker talking about a wasted opportunity after a Presidents’ Trophy season, will be 34 years old during the 2016 postseason; Nash turns 31 in June and may have figured out how to have success in the playoffs one year too late; Dan Boyle and Martin St. Louis are 38 and 39, respectively, and it’s possible both played their final games as Rangers on Friday, even if Boyle has one ...
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