Rangers Rolling As Playoffs Near
by Dan DiOrio
Last season the Rangers started out magically and carried it all the way through till the Olympic break. However as the games got more important the Rangers seemed to keep fading. The official start of the collapse last year was Saturday March 3, 2006. That date marks a tough fought 2-1 loss to their rivals across the Hudson, The New Jersey Devils. That game sent the team in a spiral losing 6 straight games. The Rangers struggles continued as they finished the month of March with a 6-6-4 record. The losing did not stop there, they finished off the regular season with a 3-5-0 record in April ultimately losing the division title. Even though they made the playoffs for the first time since 1997, they were erased from the playoffs in the blink of an eye, ending another season in which the Rangers fans would go into the summer disappointed.