Rangers biggest goal scoring games through the years

What was the New York Rangers’ biggest goal explosion and when? A look back at a Rangers goal scoring history

The most goals scored in a game by the New York Rangers last season was six.  They did that eight times.   The most goals scored by any one team in a game was nine, done twice by the Tampa Bay Lightning and once by the Vancouver Canucks.   The Rangers were the recipients of one of those beat downs, losing 9-3 to Tampa last November.

The only teams that reached a high for the season with fewer goals were the Detroit Red Wings and Columbus Blue Jackets, who each scored five goals in a game.  It feels like it has been a while since the Rangers had one of those glorious blowouts. It has been.

You have to go back four years to the last time the Rangers scored as many as seven goals in a game. That was on November 15, 2016 when they beat the Canucks in Vancouver by a 7 -2 score.  Just a month earlier, they had defeated the San Jose Sharks 7-4 at Madison Square Garden.

To find a game when the Rangers scored as many as eight goals, you have to go back to March 18, 2014 when the Rangers scored eight goals in an 8-4 win in Ottawa. Believe it or not, it’s been over ten years since the Blueshirts scored eight goals in a game at Madison Square Garden. You have to go back to November 14, 2010 when the Rangers overwhelmed Edmonton 8-2.

Double digits

The Rangers haven’t seen a double digit game in the new millennium.   They last scored ten goals in a game on November 10, 1998 when they beat Tampa on the road, 10-2.   To find the last time the Blueshirts scored in double digits at Madison Square Garden, let’s travel back to December 13, 1992 when they beat Montreal 10-5.

Just one month earlier, the Rangers had scored 11 goals, beating the Penguins 11-3 at the Igloo.  The Rangers have actually scored 11 or more goals eight times in franchise history.

The first time was way back on March 16, 1939 when they beat the New York Americans 11-5.  Although classified as a road game, it happened at Madison Square Garden which they shared with the Americans.  That game was a product of the times.  The Americans’ goalie, Earl Robertson, suffered a ligament tear in the second period and had to leave the game after giving up four goals by the middle of the second period.

He was replaced by a fellow named Roger Jenkins, a defenseman and the Rangers poured in seven goals in the third period including two by Phil Watson and one by Bryan Hextall.

The Rangers equaled that output on January 25, 1942 in an 11-2 win at the Garden over the Detroit Red Wings.   They did it against the regular Red Wings goalie Johnny Mowers.   They scored three goals in 48 seconds in the second period and rookie Grant Warwick had the hat trick.   Their nine goal differential tied the franchise mark set in 1940 in  a 9-0 win over Montreal.