Monday\u2019s loss to Utah<\/a> at Madison Square Garden, figures to get plenty of action with Shesterkin on IR, but he\u2019ll turn 40 next month and the Rangers have to decide how much to rely on the veteran.<\/p>\nGarand, 23, was selected in the fourth round by the Rangers in the 2020 draft and is in his fourth full season with Wolf Pack. He has a 2.67 goals against average in 17 games this season, but evidently the organization doesn\u2019t believe he\u2019s ready yet.<\/p>\n
He was called up to back up Shesterkin earlier in the season when Quick was on injured reserve, but didn\u2019t appear in any of the four games when he was on the roster.<\/p>\n
By going with Martin, the Rangers are opting for experience, as the 30-year-old has played for four NHL teams over five seasons, most recently appearing in nine games with Carolina last year, putting up a 3.89 goals against average and a save percentage of .846.<\/p>\n
He was called up for a pair of games in Quick\u2019s absence earlier in the year, but like Garand, didn\u2019t see any ice time.<\/p>\n
Additionally, the team announced Tuesday that Brett Berard was assigned to Hartford, with Miller approaching his return from an upper-body injury.<\/p>\n
Even with a healthy Shesterkin, the Rangers have struggled \u2014 due in large part to their inability to score goals.<\/p>\n
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Rangers top goalie prospect Dylan Garand, giving up a goal during a preseason game, is remaining in the AHL despite Igor Shesterkin\u2019s injury. Corey Sipkin for New York Post<\/p>\n
It\u2019s been an issue for much of the season and more recently, they\u2019ve notched more than three goals just once in their past five games.<\/p>\n
Not surprisingly, that was the one game of the five they won, as they slip in the Eastern Conference standings.<\/p>\n
And they haven\u2019t closed out games, as was the case against the Mammoth on Monday, when they took a one-goal lead into the third period, only to let Utah tie it early in the period and win it in overtime.<\/p>\n
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Coach Mike Sullivan said the Rangers didn\u2019t play with the \u201clevel of intensity we needed\u201d in the first half of the third period.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur challenge is to find a way to bring that consistency,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s part of the reason why the Rangers haven\u2019t won a game in regulation at the Garden since Nov. 24.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we\u2019ve got a lead, we\u2019ve got to do a better job making sure we bear down,\u201d Braden Schneider said. \u201cWe have to push the pace and make sure we play in their end.\u201d<\/p>\n
If they\u2019re without Shesterkin for any length of time, that will be even harder.<\/p>\n
Coming off another home defeat, the Rangers have three of their next four games at home.<\/p>\n
Despite their poor results, they remain in the hunt for the postseason.<\/p>\n
Following the four-game stretch, which begins Thursday against a hot Buffalo team, the Rangers then visit Philadelphia before a three-game West Coast road trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dylan Garand will have to wait some more for his NHL debut. The Rangers opted to recall Spencer…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":499249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[149242,32159,1302,293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-499248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-igor-shesterkin","9":"tag-jonathan-quick","10":"tag-new-york-rangers","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115854673686486760","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}