With Christmas just around the calendar,\u00a0 the best thing Santa can do is deliver a certified guarantee that the Rangers<\/a> will make the playoffs next Spring.<\/p>\n But The Maven’s correspondent in Santa Land, tells me that Kris Kringle will give no such guarantee; not after last night’s 2-1 loss to Nashville.<\/p>\n In Music City, one could say that the Rangers have a right to sing the blues \u2013 but not because they lost to one of the NHL’s worst teams; but for the following reasons that contributed to the demise.<\/p>\n 1.<\/b> The club’s high-priced stars fail over and over again. Where was rich-man Breadman Panarin, Mika Zibanejad, and Alexis Lafreni\u00e8re when you needed them.\u00a0<\/p>\n 2.<\/b> Once again Jonathan Quick’s sterling work in the net \u2013 just one goal allowed, the other an empty-netter \u2013 is wasted again and again. and again.<\/p>\n 3.<\/b> Opponents think so little of the Blueshirts offense, they often start their backup goalie secure in the knowledge that a popgun (17 Rangers shots) offense will do no harm. Thus, a young Finn named Justus Annunen started in goal for the Preds and Justus triumphed.<\/p>\n In conversation with Toronto Sun columnist Steve Simmons on the “Bottle Rocket” podcast, I asked Steve \u2013 best hockey-writing mind in the country \u2013 about the Rangers.<\/p>\n “Their (supposedly) best scorers are getting old,” he shot back and last night’s game was Exhibit A<\/b>.<\/p>\n Exhibit B<\/b> happens to be captain J.T. Miller who is proving to be more injury-prone than useful.\u00a0<\/p>\n Exhibit C<\/b> is Jonny Brodzinski. When the Blueshirts have to rely on an occasional fourth-liner for their goals \u2013 he got the loner last night too late to do any good \u2013 the club’s latest mantra must be OY VAY!<\/p>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source thehockeynews.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With Christmas just around the calendar,\u00a0 the best thing Santa can do is deliver a certified guarantee that the Rangers will make the playoffs next Spring. But The Maven’s correspondent in Santa Land, tells me that Kris Kringle will give no such guarantee; not after last night’s 2-1 loss to Nashville. In Music City, one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2208759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2208758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/A-Visit-To-Music-City-Leaves-The-Blueshirts-Singing-The.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2208758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2208760,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208758\/revisions\/2208760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2208759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2208758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2208758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2208758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n The Young Flyers Tested The Rangers Mettle And New York Won<\/span>
\n Finding a level of stability has been the Rangers<\/a>‘ challenge for the last month of Blueshirts Yo-Yo hockey.
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