from Larry Brooks of the New York Post,

The Rangers are all wearing t-shirts with the message “Stay Positive” across their chests, and for the most part that’s what they were following last night’s 3-1 defeat to the Capitals in Game 1 of the first-round series.

There was much talk about having done “a lot of good things,” and that wasn’t entirely off-base regarding the match in which the Blueshirts outshot their opponents 36-30 and out-attempted them by 79-53.

But the Rangers didn’t do enough things well for enough of the time. They found themselves in more of an OK-Corral shootout than they would have preferred.

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