Rangers playoff hopes are dashed with shootout loss to Flyers
There are no ways to sugarcoat it, the New York Rangers aren't going to the playoffs.
They were eliminated by the Philadelphia Flyers on Sunday.

The game had a playoff feel, it went down to the wire in regulation, then it went to overtime, and then it was decided in an intense shootout.

Just like that it was over, the past 20 days the Rangers had dug their way out from the bottom of the Eastern Conference and had their playoff fate in their own hands.

The Rangers were seven points out of the playoffs with just 10 games to go and fell just one goal short of the playoffs.
Oli Jokinen was stopped by Brian Boucher and the Rangers season stopped at the same time.

The last time the Rangers missed the postseason was the 2003-2004 season.
One thing is for sure the rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist did all he could, he had to face 47 shots on goal and then undergo a grueling shootout.
The rangers have all off-season to sit and wonder if they had one more win what could have been