NEW YORK — Home sweet home hasn’t been so sweet for the Rangers this season.
The Blueshirts were back home at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday night to face the Metropolitan Division-leading Carolina Hurricanes, winners of 11 straight games. And playing the league’s hottest team at home, where they haven’t been great this season, didn’t bode well for the Rangers, who have lost more games at home than they’ve won this season.
But maybe Gerard Gallant’s team needed a challenge of this magnitude. Trailing three separate times against the ‘Canes, the Blueshirts kept plugging away and coming back until K’Andre Miller, who’d been having a rough night, tipped home a shot by Mika Zibanejad at 10:27 of the third period to provide the winner in a 5-3 victory for the Blueshirts over the team with the second-best record in the NHL.
