Jonathan Quick was back in Conn Smythe mode, extending the remarkable start to his age-39 season.<\/p>\n
If only his offense didn\u2019t look past its prime again.<\/p>\n
The Rangers were outplayed. They were outshot 42-19. Quick made so many of the mistakes irrelevant, single-handedly swinging momentum to give his team chances to avoid another lost night at home, but the veteran backup\u2019s latest throwback effort was not enough, as the Rangers saw their three-game win streak snapped in a 2-1 loss to the Red Wings at Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n
Despite Quick\u2019s 40 saves, the Rangers (10-8-2) fell to 1-7-1 at home, following Lucas Raymond\u2019s NHL \u201994-style wraparound goal with 3:47 remaining.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously, Quickie was unbelievable tonight,\u201d said assistant coach David Quinn, who helped fill in for absent head coach Mike Sullivan (personal reasons). \u201cIt looked like we might be able to steal a point there as the game was evolving, and we just weren\u2019t able to get it done.\u201d<\/p>\n
Six days removed from their first home win of the season, the Rangers again looked like the team that got off to the worst home start in franchise history, while getting shut out in five of seven games.<\/p>\n
Rangers center Noah Laba (R) tries to shoot the puck past Red Wings goaltender Cam Talbot (L) in the first period at Madison Square Garden on November 16, 2025. JASON SZENES FOR NY POST<\/p>\n
Despite facing a team that ranked 23rd in GAA (3.28) and 27th in save percentage (.882), the Rangers barely tested their former goaltender, Cam Talbot, needing more than six minutes to record their first shot on goal, then adding one more in the next six minutes. In the final period, they were outshot 14-3.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just didn\u2019t get to our game,\u201d Rangers captain J.T. Miller said. \u201cThey did a good job of defending the looks we did get. \u2026 It wasn\u2019t good enough. They outplayed us. If it wasn\u2019t for Quickie, that game could\u2019ve been wide open.\u201d<\/p>\n
Quick \u2014 who entered 3-1 with a 1.26 GAA and .950 save percentage \u2014 was brilliant in his first home start in more than a month.<\/p>\n
The two-time Stanley Cup winner kept the scoreboard clean midway through the second \u2014 despite taking on twice as many shots as the Rangers produced \u2014 until a Raymond shot trickled past him and was slammed home by Detroit\u2019s Alex DeBrincat.<\/p>\n
Rangers center Vincent Trocheck (Bottom) tries to score during the final minutes of the game against Detroit Red Wings goaltender Cam Talbot (C) in the third period at Madison Square Garden. JASON SZENES FOR NY POST<\/p>\n
The Rangers found an immediate break on a delay-of-game penalty. Following Quick\u2019s stop of a J.T. Compher breakaway, Mika Zibanejad awoke the sold-out crowd, swooping in from the left side to push an Artemi Panarin rebound past Talbot for his seventh goal of the season, with 8:01 left in the second.<\/p>\n
Detroit went on the power play again with 13:21 left in the third period, following a tripping penalty by Will Cuylle and had several golden scoring opportunities, but Quick stood tall. <\/p>\n
With two seconds remaining on the penalty kill, the Rangers were whistled again for slashing on Noah Laba. Patrick Kane nearly put the Wings ahead, hitting Quick\u2019s pad, hitting the post, then feeding Dylan Larkin, who was stoned in front. Minutes later, Quick raised the bar again, denying Raymond while sliding in a full split.<\/p>\n
Rangers goaltender Jonathan Quick makes a save on a shot by Detroit Red Wings left wing Lucas Raymond (R) in the second period at Madison Square Garden. JASON SZENES FOR NY POST<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s one of the best to do it,\u201d Miller said. \u201cEvery single game, he gives us a chance to win.\u201d<\/p>\n
When the final horn sounded, Detroit\u2019s Mason Appleton shot on the Rangers\u2019 empty net, prompting Quick to instigate a benches-clearing skirmish between the teams.<\/p>\n
Only one came to fight.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe plays with a lot of passion,\u201d Cuylle said. \u201cHe had a big game for us, and that\u2019s on us for not getting the win for him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jonathan Quick was back in Conn Smythe mode, extending the remarkable start to his age-39 season. If only…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19694,13975,9,11,10,541,539,319],"class_list":["post-41939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-detroit-red-wings","tag-jonathan-quick","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}