Bantering Points: 1/15/17

The Rangers returned to their house of horrors last night, and the game went as expected. New York fell to the Montreal Canadiens 5-4, as their struggles at the Bell Centre continued. After losing twice in two nights, the team will have to regroup and prepare for Tuesday night's meeting with the Dallas Stars. Here are today's news and links:

Rangers News:

• Highlights: MTL 5, NYR 4 (5:18 Video via NHL.com)
• Game Recap: The Canadiens took advantage of a cold Henrik Lundqvist coming into the game and rallied past New York (CBS)
• Larry Brooks discusses how the team's preseason plan of easing Henrik Lundqvist's workload has begun to backfire (NY Post)
• Justin Tasch relays word from Alain Vigneault that the Rangers need to break their habit of allowing early goals in order to succeed (NY Daily News)
• Dan Akeson offered his thoughts on last nights defeat against Les Habitants (Blueshirt Bulletin)
• Jess Rubenstein provides an update on a number of New York's prospects, including Ty Ronning, Sergei Zborovskiy, and more (Blueshirt Bulletin)
• Thomas Crincoli compares New York's 4th Line this season to the 13-14 edition that anchored the team's Conference Championship run (Blue Line Station)
• Greg Wyshynski questions whether or not the Rangers got away with interfering with Carey Price on Rick Nash's goal (Puck Daddy)
• Postgame Notes: For the first time in franchise history, New York has five American players with ten goals in a single season (Official Team Site)
• Postgame Interviews: Alain Vigneault,(1:04) Ryan McDonagh,(1:27) J.T. Miller,(0:35) and Henrik Lundqvist (2:04)/

Around the NHL:

• Pierre Lebrun reports that NHL has not received a definite deadline from the International Olympic Committee about the league's participation in the 2018 Games (ESPN)
• Jared Clinton lists the top five undrafted players having major impacts this season (The Hockey News)
• Andrew Bottomley hears that the NHL has decided to cut the Breakaway Challenge from the All-Star Skills Competition (Sportsnet)
• Josh cooper writes that NHL is "neutral" about the NFL's Oakland Raiders' inevitable move to Las Vegas (Puck Daddy)

Do you know who the Ranger in the picture is?