Into the great unknown go the Rangers, into the Hub bubble of Toronto, one of 24 teams entered in the Great Stanley Cup Tournament of 2020,…
Into the great unknown go the Rangers, into the Hub bubble of Toronto, one of 24 teams entered in the Great Stanley Cup Tournament of 2020, with a three-of-five coming up against their kissin’ cousins, the Candy Canes, for entry and invitation to the playoffs on the other side.
We’re saying there’s a chance.
It starts Monday at the rink in Tarrytown, Phase 3, Training Camp 2.0, whatever moniker it’s been assigned before the trek across the border and life inside. The Blueshirts, just three years from having almost been stripped to the studs, will drop the puck at 11 a.m.
And what is the over/under on David Quinn’s first outburst in four months and two days, since the Rangers were last on the ice, losing a 3-2 overtime game in Colorado that preceded the pause?
Maybe 11:10?
Training camp testing has a new meaning. It is not about a 3-mile run. It is about the coronavirus, which has made it necessary to be here in the middle of July. But this experiment undertaken by the league and its players is also about competition. It is about chasing the Stanley Cup.
For the Rangers, it is about winning 19 postseason games. More to the point, it is first about winning three games against Carolina, whom the Blueshirts swept four straight during the regular season and against whom their record is 10-2 over the last three seasons, 15-5 the last five years and 30-6 since the start of 2011-12.
We also should mention that while the Blueshirts indeed did win all four against the ’Canes — who recorded a .
