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New York Rangers: Should you believe in the team’s recent resurgence?

By John Williams

NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 08: The New York Rangers salute the crowd after defeating the Boston Bruins 4-2 at Madison Square Garden on November 8, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Jared Silber/NHLI via Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 08: The New York Rangers salute the crowd after defeating the Boston Bruins 4-2 at Madison Square Garden on November 8, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Jared Silber/NHLI via Getty Images) /
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NEW YORK, NY – NOVEMBER 08: The New York Rangers salute the crowd after defeating the Boston Bruins 4-2 at Madison Square Garden on November 8, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Jared Silber/NHLI via Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY – NOVEMBER 08: The New York Rangers salute the crowd after defeating the Boston Bruins 4-2 at Madison Square Garden on November 8, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Jared Silber/NHLI via Getty Images) /

The New York Rangers are finally getting back on track, as they’ve won five straight games. Does this mean they are back to contender status? Our experts here at Blue Line Station shared their thoughts.

The New York Rangers got off to a horrible start. Through 12 games, the team held a 3-7-2 record and were perhaps one Halloween loss to the Las Vegas Golden Knights away from getting their coach Alain Vigneault fired.

Things have changed rather dramatically in the last two and a half weeks.

The Rangers have now won five games in a row and have been able to find goals at key times from their top lines. Players like Mika Zibanejad, Kevin Shattenkirk, J.T. Miller, and Pavel Buchnevich have been leading the charge for the team lately. Zibanejad even has scored just over a point per game through 17 games.

There are still parts of the team’s game that are shaky though. Although they have been playing better, they are not playing perfect hockey by any stretch of the imagination.

With all of that in mind, is this team back to its perennial contender status? We asked some of our experts here at Blue Line Station to weigh in.

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