Even though it still looked possible until Saturday evening, the Rangers were never going to go 16-0 in the playoffs.
And so, for the first time in a month, the Blueshirts lost 4-3 in Game 4 of their second-round series against the Hurricanes at PNC Arena, where they failed to capitalize on their first opportunity to close out Carolina in front of a healthy representation of New York transplants in the South.
The Rangers will get their next chance to advance in Game 5 on Monday at the Garden.
“Gotta win one game at home,” Adam Fox said. “They’re not going to go down easy and just give us that fourth win. Definitely going to have to earn it, but I think this group has shown all year how resilient we are. I’m pretty confident in how we’ll respond.”
For a third straight game, there was a tie to be broken in the third period.
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