BOSTON _ The good feeling the Rangers had in abundance after their big win over Buffalo Thursday was gone by the end of the first period on Sunday night.
Mika Zibanejad, the Blueshirts' top-line center and leading scorer, took a hit from Boston's Patrice Bergeron near the end of the first period in the Rangers' game against the Bruins at the Garden and left with what the Rangers said was an upper-body injury. The Rangers allowed four goals in the second period and lost, 7-4. But if Zibanejad, who has a history of concussions, is seriously injured and misses an extended period of time, that will be a much bigger loss for the Rangers than this one game.
The game had started off on a bad note for the Rangers (3-5-1) when forward Jesper Fast, who had been scheduled to play on the right wing of the first line, with Zibanejad and Chris Kreider, was a last-minute scratch for what the team called "personal" reasons. The Rangers then failed to get a shot on goal in the first 10-plus minutes of the game.
