another letter from the front office<\/a> outlining their intention to re-tool.<\/p>\n\u201cObviously weren\u2019t quite ready to play,\u201d said captain J.T. Miller. \u201cYou feel like you are, but they come out flying, and they draw two penalties. They capitalized, building was rocking. We just kind of beat ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n
That the Rangers \u201cbeat themselves,\u201d as Miller labelled it, can be boiled down to how the Sharks scored their goals.\n<\/p>\n
Sharks phenom Macklin Celebrini opened the scoring 1:09 into the game on a power play that came off a Mika Zibanejad tripping minor. As San Jose cycled the puck around the Rangers\u2019 offensive zone, Celebrini slid down from the flank to the net, where Tyler Toffoli hit him with a centering pass from down low. Miller, the closest Ranger to him, couldn\u2019t pick him up.<\/p>\n
Two minutes later, in the waning seconds of a Matthew Robertson delay of game penalty, the Rangers collapsed into the corner and left Pavol Regenda alone in the slot. Regenda had time to take the puck on his backhand and aim a shot over Spencer Martin\u2019s blocker.<\/p>\n
San Jose\u2019s third goal, which came at even strength, may have been the most egregious defensive showing of the night. Carson Soucy turned the puck over in the Rangers\u2019 end, and with the Rangers\u2019 failing to pick up the Sharks\u2019 attacking forwards, Celebrini, left wide open in the high slot, wired a shot past Martin\u2019s glove.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s no hiding that the start kills us, really,\u201d Zibanejad said. \u201cEven though we get that 3-1 goal, and we try to climb back, it\u2019s just the constant [trying] to come back, trying to chase, you\u2019re wasting a lot of energy on playing like that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of all the reasons the Rangers\u2019 season has cratered this month, their poor first-period play has cost them multiple nights. New York surrendered the opening goal 0:18 in against Los Angeles on Tuesday, and were down 4-0 by the first intermission against the Ottawa Senators on Jan. 14. When they do score first, they have too often watched their lead slip away.<\/p>\n
Vincent Trocheck, who admitted after Friday\u2019s loss that the Rangers\u2019 poor starts \u201chad become a bit of a theme lately,\u201d put it simply: \u201cWe got to make sure that we\u2019re ready to play when we get here.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Rangers return to Madison Square Garden on Monday to face the Bruins, who beat New York 10-2 in their last meeting on Jan. 10.\n<\/p>\n
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