The New York Rangers played a game against the Boston Bruins on Wednesday night that was over before the end of the second period. Not just because the hottest team in hockey had built a 5-1 lead and chased Henrik Lundqvist from his crease but because anyone observing this mess could see the Rangers had unplugged their controllers, unable to find the reset button https://www.facebook.com/LOLGA.INC/ .
"It was disappointing, frustrating and embarrassing. When you lose a lot, it's going to affect you a little bit. You have to work harder to stay in a certain mindset as a group," Lundqvist said after the game.The problem for the Rangers, and other NHL teams currently in a spiral: Time is running short. Money Puck, which runs a simulation of the rest of the season 100,000 times to figure out probabilities, sets the Rangers' playoff chances at 12.79 percent. Only seven teams have lower chances than the Rangers do.
At the moment, the points target for a playoff spot in the Eastern Conference is around 90. In the Western Conference, things are hairier, with the target more like 98 points."The key right now is not to overreact when bad things happen. But that's hard when things have been going as bad as they have lately," Lundqvist said.Are the Rangers alive? What about the rest of the bubble teams in the NHL?Here's a look at the playoff picture, with odds from Money Puck, Sports Club Stats and Hockey Viz. We encourage you to visit each site to learn more about its methodology.
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