{"id":1487964,"date":"2022-05-23T07:46:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T11:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1487964"},"modified":"2022-05-23T07:46:30","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T11:46:30","slug":"rangers-look-strong-heading-into-key-game-3-vs-hurricanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rangers-look-strong-heading-into-key-game-3-vs-hurricanes\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers Look Strong Heading into Key Game 3 vs. Hurricanes"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frangers-look-strong-heading-into-key-game-3-vs-hurricanes%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1487964&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The Rangers have been here before, nearly two weeks ago, trailing by two games in a playoff series and on their heels heading home to Madison Square Garden. This team made coming back their hallmark during the regular season, so why not in the playoffs?<\/p>\n<p>It would save everyone some stress if the Rangers did things differently, but here they are again ahead of what amounts to a must-win Sunday matinee in Game 3 of their second-round series against the Hurricanes. The tone emanating out of coach Gerard Gallant and his team has carried a more positive vibe than it did following their blowout loss to the Penguins in Game 4 of the first round, in which the Rangers were beaten up and down the ice while falling behind 3-1 in that series.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was two good games in a row, we came away 0-2, but I thought we played good hockey,\u201d Gallant said Saturday after<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/20\/rangers-blanked-by-hurricanes-in-game-2-loss\/\"> the 2-0 loss Friday night<\/a> at PNC Arena in Raleigh, N.C. \u201cSo we gotta get back to it and get ready to play a big game tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gallant did not strike the tone of someone <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/21\/rangers-open-to-offense-taking-more-risks-to-a-point\/\">ready to make wholesale changes<\/a>. He pointed out, not for the first time, that the Rangers had the better of the series opener and that the match Friday was mostly even. That does not change the results, and one goal in more than six periods of hockey does not cut it.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/Igor-Shesterkin-3.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption>Igor Shesterkin, stopping a shot with his glove during the Rangers\u2019 Game 2 loss, and the Blueshirts are looking to bounce back in Game 3 vs. the Hurricanes.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>But the Rangers can send the series back to Raleigh tied up if they only hold serve at home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re in a hole, but it\u2019s been two road games,\u201d Gallant said. \u201cWe just gotta make sure we take care of our home ice now. We gotta make sure we win tomorrow. One game at a time and then we\u2019ll worry about Game 4, but they held court [at home]. It\u2019s a long series. Like I said, we\u2019ve been here, done that before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Rangers will take that experience into Sunday. They won three straight do-or-die games against the Penguins. This is not a team that will roll over and play dead.<\/p>\n<div class=\"single__inline-module inline-module inline-module--newsletter alignright\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n<h3 class=\"inline-module__title headline headline--combo-sm-md\">\n\t\t\tKeep up with the most important sports news\t\t<\/h3>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\tSign up for Starting Lineup for the biggest stories.\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI think we learned a lot [from the first round],\u201d Kevin Rooney said. \u201cWe\u2019re a resilient group. We\u2019ve been resilient all year and nothing really changed for us, we continue to play the same way. That\u2019s why we had success in that Pittsburgh series. So we gotta stick to what we\u2019ve been doing all year and what\u2019s made us successful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The series could look different at the Garden, not just because Gallant can dictate matchups if he chooses. The Rangers have made no secret of the difference made by the crowds all through the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously they got the crowd on their side in their building,\u201d Rooney said. \u201cI thought we did great both nights of coming out and getting pucks out of their zone early and getting the crowd out of it. And now hopefully we can use the crowd at home to our advantage. Our crowd\u2019s been our number one star this playoffs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It would, of course, behoove the Rangers if one of their underproducing forwards could be that \u201cnumber one star\u201d after the next two games. The belief that they will find a way, though, is one of the underpinnings of this team.<\/p>\n<p>As Gallant pointed out, the Rangers were second in the NHL in comeback victories this season, with 27. They are also the first team in playoff history to win three straight elimination games via comeback, and have come back from a 3-1 deficit in a series three times since 2014.<\/p>\n<p>In light of that, a 2-0 deficit doesn\u2019t seem so daunting. And another comeback would be in line with this team\u2019s DNA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe got a lot of belief in this room,\u201d Rooney said. \u201cWe got a great group. And our leadership group has done a tremendous job, especially this postseason. So yeah, we got a lot of belief in this group.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rangers have been here before, nearly two weeks ago, trailing by two games in a playoff series and on their heels heading home to Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":489,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1487964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1487964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1487964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1487964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1487964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}