NEW YORK — Dan Girardi shares a wall with Marc Staal in the New York Rangers’ locker room, as the two have been teammates since 2007 and stall neighbors for several years.
So when Girardi saw the media gathering around Staal to talk with the defenseman about his team’s strangely convincing 5-0 victory against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden, Girardi had some playful comments for the gathering hoard of reporters.
“None of you had us winning, did you?”
No, Daniel, we most certainly did not.
The Rangers looked like a tired, disjointed team over the weekend, icing three AHL defensemen in a 5-4 road loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday and having a thoroughly unimpressive showing in a 3-1 home loss to the Edmonton Oilers on Sunday.
After looking particularly overmatched against an Oilers team that lacked Taylor Hall, the Rangers took a few minutes to talk about their problems before opening the locker room to the media.
The specifics are unavailable, but the general problem for the players and coac ...
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