Day: April 15, 2015

The Rangers will return to New York for Friday’s game 5 with a handy 3-1 series lead, and a chance to close out their first round series against the Penguins in five games.  You have to go back seven years, to 2008, when they beat the Devils 4-1 in the first round to find the last series that took less than six games for the Rangers to win.

Of course, it’s anything but a done deal.  The Rangers only have to go back to last year, when they came back from a 1-3 deficit against the very same Penguins, to know that it can be done.  Dan Girardi, Marc Staal and Henrik Lundqvist were also around in 2009 when the Rangers blew their own 3-1 series lead to lose to the Capitals in seven games.