NEW YORK — What’s your breaking point? When do you give up? How many times can Lucy pull the football away as you’re about to kick it before you pick yourself up, dust yourself off and call it a night?
The New York Rangers were given every reason to call it a season Friday night. Braden Holtby has been something out of a futuristic hockey laboratory all series—a genetically enhanced, puck-stopping cyborg, like the goaltending version of Ivan Drago in Rocky IV only without the illegal injections.
Holtby had been impervious to frozen rubber for nearly 59 minutes on Friday, and with the Capitals getting a potentially back-breaking goal from Curtis Glencross midway through the third period, a berth in the conference finals was within reach.
Then Chris Kreider cut the Russian. Or the Canadian, as it were.
Kreider tied the score at 1-1 with 1:41 remaining on the Rangers’ 35th shot of the night. Then Ryan McDonagh won it midway through overtime to complete the 2-1 comeback victory in Game 5 of this second-round series that was tantalizingly close to ending with the Capitals ...
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