The Rangers have had a knack this season for going to school on their opponents, especially after losses, under head coach Peter Laviolette.
Well, the Blueshirts need to put those habits to work and hit the books after falling behind in the Eastern Conference Final series against the Panthers Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden, where the home team looked distressingly inferior at times in a 3-0 loss in Game 1.
“Accountability — not from me, although I can help — but from them,” Laviolette said of what’s made the team so receptive to adjustments this season. “And realizing that maybe it’s not the way we want to play or it wasn’t as clean as we would like. You go back and look at the chances [in Game 1]. It’s kind of an even game. Like, the whole thing was kind of even, it sits around the 50 percent mark.
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