It’s been a tough week for the Rangers. On Monday, they were eliminated from playoff contention and lost their best player to injury after an assault by Tom Wilson. On Wednesday they lost their president, John Davidson, and their general manager, Jeff Gorton, who were shockingly fired. And they brought a four-game losing streak into their final series of the season.
And against the surging Boston Bruins on Thursday, they looked like a beaten down team.
Playing their next-to-last game of the season, on the second night of a back-to-back, with the suspended Pavel Buchnevich out of the lineup and two new Hartford callups dressed for the game, the Rangers offered little resistance in a 4-0 loss to the Bruins at TD Garden. The loss, their fifth straight, dropped their record to 26-23-6, with one game remaining. They will close out the 56-game season Saturday afternoon against the Bruins.
