{"id":408580,"date":"2026-01-15T06:39:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T06:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/408580\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T06:39:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T06:39:12","slug":"rangers-proving-theyre-gutless-and-easy-pickings-for-rest-of-nhl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/408580\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers proving they&#8217;re gutless and easy pickings for rest of NHL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rangers organization spent so much time proclaiming its goal was to become a harder team to play against.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s ironic, isn\u2019t it, how much that message has been trotted out in recent years. Because six years after ex-general manager Jeff Gorton first said it \u2014 following the team\u2019s loss to the Hurricanes in the 2020 qualifying round \u2014 the Blueshirts have become one of the least imposing teams in the National Hockey League.<\/p>\n<p>Manhattan has become the premier destination on the league\u2019s tour for a cakewalk game.<\/p>\n<p>It certainly was for the Senators on Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden, where the Rangers were once again <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/14\/sports\/rangers-blitzed-by-senators-as-season-is-spiraling-out-of-control\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">picked apart in an 8-4 loss<\/a> that counted as their season-high fifth in a row.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rangers organization spent so much time proclaiming its goal was to become a harder team to play&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5111],"tags":[5,2310,3328,35,5190,5193,4,25,36,43,350,336],"class_list":{"0":"post-408580","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-rangers","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-mike-sullivan-nhl","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-rangers","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkrangers","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-ottawa-senators","16":"tag-rangers","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-sports-columnists","19":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115897746302169492","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}