Playoff scoring
The most goals scored by the Rangers in a playoff game is ten. That came on April 11, 1981 at Madison Square Garden over the Los Angeles Kings. The Blueshirts won by a score of 10-3. The next highest goal total for the Rangers in the playoffs was nine goals, scored on April 8, 1983 in a 9-3 win over the Philadelphia Flyers.
They have scored eight goals in a playoff game eight times, the last time being 25 years ago in a 8-3 win over the Quebec Nordiques on the road on May 8, 1995. The last time they did it at home was on May 1, 1992 when they beat the Devils 8-4 at the Garden.
The first time they scored eight goals was on April 10, 1975 when they beat the Islanders at the Nassau Coliseum by an 8-3 score. Ironically, that was the opening game of a three game series and only a tiny television audience saw the game as it was televised on a fledgling pay network called Home Box Office. Many more people saw the next two games at Madison Square Garden, both won by the Islanders with the series winner an overtime goal by J.P. Parise.
Those eight goals against the Islanders shattered the single game playoff goal scoring record that had been set in 1940 when the Rangers beat Toronto 6-2.
The largest margin of victory in playoff game for the Rangers is seven goals, accomplished twice. The first was that 10-3 win they registered over the Los Angeles Kings in 1981. The did it again with a 7-0 win over the Atlanta Thrashers on April 17, 2007.
Summing up
Considering that is 22 years since the Rangers scored in double digits, they are long overdue. Ranger fans would be happy to see them score eight goals in a game, something they haven’t done since 2002.
With their loaded offense, it’s just a matter of time.