Following his team’s loss to Alex Ovechkin and the Capitals Friday in Washington, acting Rangers coach Kris Knoblauch didn’t think there was a whole lot he needed to change for Saturday’s game against the Capitals, just maybe a tweak or two, here or there.
"I think there were some things that we just felt that we could be better at,’’ Knoblauch said before the Rangers closed out the two-game set in the nation’s capital. "Overall, we liked our effort (and) our execution was pretty good. But we just felt that maybe we could take advantage of some things.’’
One of the things the Rangers were able to take advantage of this time was the surging Mika Zibanejad, who finally seems to be coming out of the season-long funk he’d been in. It was Zibanejad who broke the tie with 2:32 remaining in regulation and push the Rangers to a 3-1 victory over the Caps that allowed them to earn a split of the series.
