from Larry Brooks of the New York Post,

The Rangers right now are bad at just about everything. That, unfortunately, includes being bad at math.

For the third straight game and the fifth time in their first 11 matches, the Blueshirts could not count accurately to six and were assessed yet another too-many-men-on-the-ice minor.

There might be an excuse for being bad at scoring, might be an excuse for being bad at passing or skating. There is no excuse for being bad at adding one plus one plus one plus one plus one plus the goalie and failing to come up with the right number.

“It’s mental,” Kevin Hayes told The Post. “I don’t know if maybe guys get too excited and jump on early. Nobody wants that, but it shouldn’t happen. It can’t happen.”

Guess what?

It is happening, over and over and over again.

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