So it was by the hand of The Hamburglar that the Rangers are now officially in the playoffs.
The Blueshirts blew away the league-wide sensation, Senators' goalie Andrew Hammond, who carries the moniker of the McDonald's cartoon character, en route a 5-1 win at the Canadian Tire Center on Thursday night. By way of the Bruins losing a heartbreaking 3-2 overtime game to the Ducks, the Rangers locked up their fifth straight postseason berth.
The Rangers (47-19-7) absolutely left behind their 4-2 loss to the Kings on Tuesday at the Garden, and gave the Senators (37-25-11) very little to work with, shutting them down through all three zones and firing shots at Hammond from all angles.
The 27-year-old rookie, who came in 14-0-1 since being recalled in February, gave up five goals on 22 shots before being replaced by Chris Driedger, making his NHL debut. Hammond made it to the 17:05 mark through the second period before he went to the bench with an apparent injury — either to his neck, back or ego.
His counterpart, Cam Talbot, had another solid performance in the Rangers' net, as the team has gone 18-3-3 in the absence of starter Henrik Lundqvist. Yet the return of Lundqvist is imminent, as he dressed as the backup for this one, the first time he's been on the ice or on the bench for a game since Feb. 2, a 6-3 win over the Panthers after which the severity of his blood-vessel injury was discovered, sidelining him for seven weeks. It's likely Lundqvist will start on Saturday afternoon against the Bruins in Boston.
The Blueshirts played conservatively in the third, and there was no reason not to, as the first 40 minutes was all theirs.
The second was when the Rangers went up 5-1 and didn't give up a shot to the Senators until just over 10 minutes in. The lead grew to 4-1 when Mats Zuccarello netted a good one-timer, 1:44 in. The next goal came after they killed 34 seconds of a 5-on-3 disadvantage, followed by 1:26 of 5-on-4, which ended with Tanner Glass jumping out of the box. The Rangers' hard-nosed forward shot up the ice, took a pass from Kevin Hayes and buried a wrist shot far side, his first goal as a Ranger in his 57th game.
The Rangers began the peppering of Hammond right off the bat, going out to a 1-0 lead 12:38 into the first, when Chris Kreider sped up the left wing, took a great feed from Derek Stepan off the sideboards and buried a wrist shot near side. The lead evaporated just 19 seconds later, when Curtis Lazar beat Keith Yandle to a loose puck and beat Talbot low, tying it 1-1.
Yet the Rangers then scored two more goals before the period was up, the first from defenseman Dan Boyle, the second being Kreider's second of the game and his 20th of the season, taking a 3-1 lead into the second.
"They're a fast hockey team," Boyle said on MSG after the period. "They're fighting for their playoff lives, so we can feel the intensity."
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