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By Dubi Silverstein It's only November 1st. There are still six months to go in the season. What's a Ranger writer supposed to write about? How many different ways are there to say that the Rangers are Marian Gaborik shooting pucks on net and Henrik Lundqvist keeping pucks out of the net? You can flip the coin over and complain about everyone else not scoring much and everyone else not doing much ...

By Dubi Silverstein The Rangers got back on track last night with an almost resounding 5-2 win over Don Maloney's upstart Phoenix Coyotes, ending a three-game losing streak. They scored early, and they scored in bunches, opening up a 4-0 lead before the game was half over. It looked like a laugher when former Ranger prospect Jason LaBarbera was brought in to replace Ilya Bryzgalov, who had given up all four goals ...

By Dubi Silverstein So let's take stock: Now that the Rangers have gone so quickly from heroes to zeroes, not only losing their last three in a row, but also giving up more goals in those three losses (16) than they allowed in winning their previous seven straight (13 goals against), what went right during the winning streak that is now going so wrong? Marian Gaborik is still scoring, and the power ...

By Dubi Silverstein á One day, when everything is going your way, you win a game you didn't particularly play well, and you say, that's what good teams do: win games even when they're not on top of their game. Ten days later, having won another of those not-so-great games and then losing one, you reach the inevitable next step in the cycleùlosing a game you played well enough to win. One bad game ...

By Dubi Silverstein The Rangers' seven-game winning streak did not just end, it was terminated, and how, in a 7-3 Shark attack (7-1 after the Rangers jumped out to a 2-0 lead). But unlike their compatriots in the Meadowlands, the Giants, who were similarly trounced in a streak-busting loss in New Orleans, the Rangers weren't questioning themselves all too much, even though they, like the Giants, ran up the latter part of ...

By Dubi Silverstein One of the qualities of good teams is that they can win the games in which they don't play particularly well. But that assumes that good teams only play bad games occasionally. The Rangers, not playing nearly as well as they had previously, won two, maybe even three games in a row last week that could have easily gone the other way if not for Henrik Lundqvist's superb goaltending. Not ...

By Dubi Silverstein There are several well known marks of a good team. One is being able to take advantage of a good team playing their second game in two nights, as the Rangers did in a 3-0 whitewashing of the lead-footed Ducks on Sunday. Another is being able to take advantage of a bad team, which is what they did the next night in a 7-2 rout of the lowly ...