The 5-2 empty net-abetted final might be a tad harsh as an indication of the proceedings, but perhaps not by all that much.
Measuring-stick games this early in the season generally have more meaning for teams attempting to establish themselves than those who are considered to be contenders. The Devils and Sabres would be in the first group. The Rangers would be among the latter.
For as captain Jacob Trouba told The Post after the B’s broke an early third-period 2-2 draw to win going away: “There’s another level we have to find if we want to be up there with the best teams in the league. There were rationalizations at hand if the Rangers, now 6-4-2 through the opening dozen to the B’s 10-1-0, wanted to use them. Ryan Lindgren left the game for good at 10:45 with an upper body-injury minutes after being taken down without the puck on a blindside, retaliatory hit by David Pastrnak.
The start was not particularly impressive, the middle part of the match was more like it, but the finish was downright indecent. The Blueshirts were outshot, 14-2, after Adam Fox leveled the score at 2-2 at 3:44 of the third period.
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