from Larry Brooks of the New York Post,
It will take one more game, at least one more game, for the Rangers to sew up their second-round series and advance to the conference finals following Saturday’s 4-3 Game 4 defeat here to the Canes.
If you want to spin the end of the Blueshirts’ 7-0 joyride to start the playoffs somehow as positive, there is of course the continuing and eerie parallel to 1994, a fairly famous year around here.
Those Rangers also won their first seven postseason games, lost a potential second-round Game 4 clincher in Washington before taking out the Caps in Game 5 at the Garden before moving onto the Devils, “We’ll Win Tonight,” “Save by Richter!” and all that jazz.
This group would sign up for something similar when the Candy Canes come to Manhattan for Game 5 on Monday.
The defeat, though, does have an additional consequence in that it prevents Adam Fox getting perhaps a full week’s rest before the next round starts. Fox, who took a leg-on-leg from Nick Jensen in Game 4 of the Washington series on April 28, has not seemed entirely up to par throughout this series and appeared to labor at times in the match.