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The Rangers won the Presidents' Trophy that year and swept the Islanders in the first round while the Capitals defeated the Penguins in six games. The Rangers took the first three games easily before the Capitals stayed alive by winning game four. The Rangers then took game 5 and became the eventual Stanley Cup champions, their first since 1940.
However, the Rangers won in five games in 1973. 40 years passed before the next series between the Bruins and Rangers, and in 2013 the Bruins eliminated the Rangers in five games. [ 44 ] [ 45 ] As of the end of the 2022–23 season, Boston leads the all-time series 305–252–97–12 with a 26–19–2 playoff record against the New York Rangers.
The Rangers were placed in the Metropolitan Division. [78] m The Rangers' season was shortened to 70 games because of the COVID-19 pandemic. [79] The Rangers qualified for the NHL's expanded 24-team postseason. [80] n Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020–21 NHL season was shortened to 56 games. [81]
A complete breakdown of the first-round NHL playoff series between New York and Washington, which will begin Sunday at 3 p.m.
A flurry of goals ensued between the Rangers and Capitals, who combined for four goals in a span of only 3:14 of game time, including the Blueshirts scoring the first three within 2:06 of each other.
The New York Rangers' first-round opponent is set. The Washington Capitals clinched the Eastern Conference's second and final wild-card spot with Tuesday's 2-1 win over the Philadelphia Flyers ...
By the 1994 season, the Rangers had not won the Stanley Cup in 53 years.In that time, championships had been won in the New York area by the Islanders (4), the New York Yankees (14), the New York Mets (2), the New York Giants baseball team (1 prior to the franchise's move to San Francisco in 1958), the Brooklyn Dodgers (1 prior to the franchise's move to Los Angeles in 1958), the New York ...
The Rangers scored two short-handed goals, killed off 15 of 17 Capitals power plays and did enough at 5 on 5 to get through some games that were tighter than the end result indicated.