{"id":63029,"date":"2025-12-07T01:29:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T01:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/63029\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T01:29:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T01:29:06","slug":"rangers-effort-against-avalanche-needs-to-etch-place-in-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/63029\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers&#8217; effort against Avalanche needs to etch place in identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For all the losses the Rangers have lamented with positives less than 30 games into the season, none were more deserving than Saturday afternoon\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/06\/sports\/rangers-settle-for-point-in-overtime-loss-to-avalanche\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hard-fought 3-2 overtime loss to the NHL-leading Avalanche<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In more ways than one, the Blueshirts challenged a Colorado team whose game-breaking talent outweighs theirs. Star Nathan MacKinnon, who is an early favorite for the Hart Trophy, was the main difference with two goals \u2014 including the OT winner \u2014 in the Avs\u2019 15th victory in their last 18 games.<\/p>\n<p>It may have been a game that fell into the loss column, but it was still the kind of effort the Rangers will want to ingrain in their still-forming identity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe talk about identity and, kind of like Sully [coach Mike Sullivan] mentioned, [the] two seasons we\u2019ve played,\u201d captain J.T. Miller said after the game. \u201cSeems like every time we get some momentum like this, feeling good about our game, we kind of regress and go back into the other version of the game we don\u2019t like. It\u2019s really important that we reset every game and have that mindset of, \u2018We haven\u2019t earned anything yet. We have to keep going.\u2019 If we want to build a standard and identity, we have to do it every single day. That\u2019s kind of been the mindset lately and we\u2019ve obviously shown a lot of progress since that Tampa game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For all the losses the Rangers have lamented with positives less than 30 games into the season, none&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[24061,7186,20564,9,11,10,541,539,319,431,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-63029","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-colorado-avalanche","9":"tag-j-t-miller","10":"tag-mike-sullivan-nhl","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-new-york-rangers","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-sports-columnists","18":"tag-sports-plus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63029","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=63029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}