Rangers first to be shut out in first 3 home games

NEW YORK -- Mika Zibanejad was astatine a nonaccomplishment for words aft helium and the New York Rangers made past Tuesday nighttime by becoming the archetypal squad successful NHL past to get unopen retired successful each of its archetypal 3 location games of the season.

"I don't cognize whether to laughter oregon cry," Zibanejad said aft a 2-0 loss to the Edmonton Oilers. "I honestly don't know."

The Rangers' 180-minute drought astatine Madison Square Garden is the second-longest to commencement a play astatine home, down lone the now-defunct Pittsburgh Pirates successful 1928. They went the archetypal 187:19 without a extremity astatine Duquesne Gardens earlier Hib Milks scored. The Pirates' streak was longer due to the fact that of overtime.

The erstwhile longest successful the modern epoch among teams that inactive beryllium was 155:17 by the Florida Panthers successful 2001.

"This is simply a unsocial commencement to a season," skipper J.T. Miller said. "It sucks that we had a mates games wherever we consciousness similar we've truly thrown a batch astatine the different squad and we're not getting rewarded."

Artemi Panarin had an aboriginal accidental each unsocial successful beforehand against Edmonton that was stopped by Stuart Skinner. Will Cuylle besides got the puck connected nett aft an Oilers turnover lone to beryllium turned aside, and fourth-liners Adam Edstrom and Matt Rempe had prime opportunities connected the borderline of the crease.

"We tin each spell location and slumber good knowing we played different bully location game," Miller said. "We're competitors. We privation to win. We'd emotion to spot the puck spell successful the net. Right now, it's not."

Sam Carrick, who arguably was 1 of New York's champion players, astir scored with 2:31 left, but Skinner flashed his mitt to marque the save.

None of those shots made it implicit the extremity line, and a mates of different attempts rang disconnected the crossbar and out.

"We person 2 crossbars that spell crossbar oregon station that goes close by the extremity line," Zibanejad said. "I deliberation we're creating tons of chances. I deliberation there's capable high-danger chances that we're creating, but we're not scoring. Simple."

The Rangers person failed to people connected their archetypal 90 shots connected extremity astatine home, and fans booed astatine 1 constituent erstwhile they came up bare connected consecutive powerfulness plays.

"You're dying to springiness the fans a crushed to cheer," Carrick said. "They enactment america each nighttime hugely here. Obviously they privation to travel and spot goals. That's the frustrating part."

They'll person to hold astir a week for their adjacent crippled connected location ice. New York goes connected the roadworthy for games astatine Toronto and Montreal earlier returning to big Minnesota connected Monday night. Every subordinate who spoke aft the Oilers crippled had the aforesaid bid of thought astir not abandoning the operation that contributed to winning doubly connected the roadworthy and being competitive.

"It's connected america to marque definite that the mindset stays the aforesaid successful present and we don't spell disconnected the grid to find something," Miller said. "We request to enactment the course. Over time, results volition come."