The calendar just flipped to April 2027. The Rangers are in Montreal for their final road game of the regular season, a 7 p.m. matchup with the Canadiens at Bell Center.<\/p>\n
And with four games left in the 2026-27 campaign, the Blueshirts \u2014 who snapped out of their previous two-season funk \u2014 are sitting comfortably in playoff position.<\/p>\n
Whether that\u2019s in a wild-card spot or at the top of the Metropolitan Division, a convincing return to the postseason would be the first step in the Rangers\u2019 best-case scenario for this upcoming season.<\/p>\n
Of course, Igor Shesterkin raising the Stanley Cup over his head on a float up the Canyon of Heroes is the ultimate outcome. In reality, however, simply piecing together a competitive season from start to finish would be an ideal result of the organization\u2019s retooling initiative<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The calendar just flipped to April 2027. The Rangers are in Montreal for their final road game of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":825281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[11555,121367,11556,11558,11559,4823,385,4892,99,358],"class_list":["post-825280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-alexis-lafreniere","tag-igor-shesterkin","tag-inside-the-rangers","tag-mika-zibanejad","tag-mike-sullivan-nhl","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl","tag-post-sports-newsletters","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}