from Larry Brooks of the New York Post,

The Rangers’ vaunted structure was nothing more than a house of cards on Friday in a 7-5 defeat on Glen Sather Night, which seemed a throwback to the bad old days early in the millennium when Slats was behind the bench on Broadway.

The Blueshirts are crashing, their season-long deficiencies in the defensive zone, most specifically in coverage in front of their own net, the primary factor in their fourth (1-3-1) in the past five games and seventh defeat (2-6-1) in the past nine matches with the final game of this three-game trip up Saturday in Calgary.

“This has to be rectified right now,” Dan Girardi said after a nightmarish performance. “I really don’t have any explanation for this.

“We kept making mistakes, we kept coming back and then we made more mistakes. It got away from us.”

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