Friday night’s 3-2 loss to the Maple Leafs at Madison Square Garden counted as the fifth consecutive time the Blueshirts whiffed on an opportunity to stack three wins in a row, which deprived them of two crucial points with their surrounding teams in the Eastern Conference wild-card race dormant for the night.

Matthew Knies broke a tie 6:21 into the third period, and the Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the New York Rangers 3-2 at Madison Square Garden in New York on Friday. Mitch Marner knocked down Igor Shesterkin’s attempt to rim the puck around the glass while behind his net and the loose puck came to Auston Matthews,

The New York Rangers stepped up in class on Friday night when the Toronto Maple Leafs came to Madison Square Garden. They weren’t quite up to the challenge. After going 2-1-0 despite playing poorly against the three weakest teams in the Eastern Conference,