The Rangers outshot the Flames last night 31-22 and seemingly outplayed them, on the road, but didn’t pick up the two points.

The difference, according to John Tortorella was Calgary goalie Mikka Kiprusoff, who stopped 29 of the Rangers 30 shots:

“I thought it was one of our best games of the year. The difference was Kiprusoff. We hold them to six scoring chances, we have 16 or 17, I thought the guys in played well in all facets of the game played well. Our transition was good, our forechecking was good, our power play was good.”

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….But the Rangers still lost. I believe in games that you can learn off of and build from and hopefully last night was one of them. Playing without their captain and one of their better players for most of the game the Rangers still seemed to carry the play and get their chances.

They still have a lot that they can work on and luckily they have time to do so until their next game, Thursday against Atlanta.

Vinny Prospal has more on last nights game, after the jump, courtesy of Blue Notes“One of those games when you run into a hot goaltender. He’s been giving them a chance for two years in a row,. He made the key saves at the time when he needed to give them a lift, and we hit a goalpost a couple times. At the end, that was the difference. I think we were outplaying them. This was probably our best game on the road by far. We lose two pretty good hockey players to injury, but whoever was out there played well. Maybe it was a case where we might’ve deserved better, but if you don’t score, you don’t win.”