The other day Henrik Lundqvist won the Ranger’s team MVP award , but you don’t need an award to tell you just how valuable he is to this Rangers team. All you had to do was to watch tonight’s 2-1 loss to the Philadelphia Flyers.
Watching tonight’s game the Rangers were pathetic offensively, but still held their to the very last second thanks to the heroics of their goalie Lundqvist. Is there a better metaphor for this entire season? This is a Rangers team that, outside of Marian Gaborik, lacked any consistent offensive power. Still, they held in there playing meaningful hockey until the very last game of the season.
Lately the Rangers have been leaning on Lundqvist more than ever. He’s played in 16 games in a row and 24 out of 25 overall since the start of February. But what choice did they have? Alex Auld is not exactly a bad goalie, but the difference between his and Lundqvist is the difference between playing until the final day and irrelevancy.
So they did what they had to, but in the en ...
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