Bantering Points: 3/5/17

The Rangers continues their struggles against the Montreal Canadiens last night, dropping their final meeting of the season by a 4-1 margin, and allowing themselves to be swept in the season series with an 0-2-1 record. Now, it's on to the Tampa Bay Lightning, as New York will head down there tomorrow. Here are today's news and links:

Rangers News:

• Highlights: MTL 4, NYR 1 (3:33 Video via NHL.com)
• Game Recap: Sheer domination from Montreal allowed the Habs to come into New York and earn two points (CBS)
• Brett Cyrgalis points out they mysterious circumstances behind Kevin Klein's back injury (NY Post)
• Larry Brooks has sounded the alarm, as the Rangers are officially facing a crisis (NY Post)
• Steve Zipay hears from Henrik Lundqvist that the team must raise their battle level in order to return to their winning ways (Newsday)
• Scott Charles offers his thoughts on New York's 4-1 defeat at Madison Square Garden last night (Blueshirt Bulletin)
• Jess Rubenstein delivers a prospect update, with bits on Tim Gettinger, Adam Huska, and more (Blueshirt Bulletin)
• George Ruggiero highlights the treatment of Pavel Buchnevich as another example of Alain Vigneault mishandling his young players (Blue Line Station)
• Postgame Notes: New York got outhit and out faceoff-ed, so the fact that they lost last night's contest is a given (Official Team Site)
• Postgame Interviews: Alain Vigneault,(2:09) Henrik Lundqvist,(2:43) Marc Staal,(1:44) and Derek Stepan (2:07) (Official Team Site)
• He skated in 277 games as a New York Ranger, and is a member of the Newfoundland and Labrador Hockey Hall of Fame.Yesterday's player in the picture was.....Darren Langdon (Wikipedia)

Around the NHL:

• Mike Johnston believes that the Vegas Golden Knights could be targeting Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury in the Expansion Draft (Sportsnet)
• Greg Wyshynski passes along a video of Washington Capitals forward Alex Ovechkin taking to the streets of  Washington D.C. as a Papa John's delivery man (Puck Daddy)
• Cam Tucker saw Tampa Bay Lightning forward Nikita Kucherov score one of the best shootout goals of all time last night, as Tampa defeated the Buffalo Sabres 2-1 (NBC Sports)