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The Rangers came into Saturday hoping to finally win at home, and the Islanders came into Saturday hoping to put forth a 60-minute effort and relegate a messy loss to the Wild on Friday to the past.
Neither of them achieved the goal, but the Islanders got much closer.
The visitors left Madison Square Garden happy, having won 5-0 and settled into the game well after a poor first period.
There was also the matter of Ilya Sorokin, who outplayed his best friend Igor Shesterkin, kept his team in the game while under an early barrage and finished with 29 saves for his first shutout of the season.
As for the Rangers, whatever bizarre piece of voodoo has caused what is now a seven-game home losing streak during which scoring has become all but impossible, there is not much left for them to do or say aside from hope that the parade of chances they had early on Saturday means there will be some positive regression in the very near future.
