UPDATE10:32: The following quotes have been sent by the Rangers. Their game notes are after the jump:

John Tortorella on the team’s play…
“You stay with it.  You just keep on trying to battle through this and stay with it.  You go to work tomorrow and keep on banging away on it.”

Vinny Prospal on tonight’s game…
“There should have been more urgency because it wasn’t getting it done until that point – with five minutes left in the second period.  They scored kind of a fluky goal to go up 2-1.  Then all of a sudden it looked like, for some reason, we relaxed a little bit.  We got the puck in the zone, started to make more passes and really put a lot of pressure on them but once again we didn’t come out with the result.”

Henrik Lundqvist on the team’s play…
“It is not easy but you have to know you are not that far away from turning this around.  We definitely had chances to tie or win this game in the third.  We played well but the puck just didn’t bounce our way tonight.”

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Scoring Summary:

-Vinny Prospal (6) opened the scoring late in the first period.

-Steve Reinprecht (10) tied the game a little under half-way through the second period.

-Jordan Leopold (2) gave the Panthers the lead a little over two minutes later.

-Nathan Horton (6) scored the eventual game winner off a rebound in the third period.

-Marian Gaborik (16) cut the lead to one from Michal Rozsival (5) and Vinny Prospal (17)

Stats:

-Henrik Lundqvist stopped 25 of 28 shots

-Tomas Vokoun stopped 32 of 34 shots

-The Rangers out-shot the Panthers 34 to 28 and limited them to 16 shots between the second and third period.

-Sean Avery led the team in shots with five. Christopher Higgins and Artem Anisimov both had four

-No Ranger played over 20:44 tonight. That was Dan Girardi

Penalties:

-Neither team took a penalty in the second or third period

-Ales Kotalik and Ryan Callahan both took minor penalties in the first period

The Rangers next game is Monday night against Columbus

• The Rangers were defeated by the Florida Panthers, 3-2, in front of a sold-out crowd (18,200) at Madison Square Garden.
• New York have sold out 167 consecutive regular season games, dating back to Nov. 5, 2005 against New Jersey; the last regular season non-sellout was Oct. 31, 2005 vs. Montreal (17,697); including the playoffs, the Rangers sellout streak is now at 181 games.
• The Rangers are now 11-10-1 (23 pts.) on the season and 6-5-0 at home; In their last 20 regular season games at MSG, New York are 14-6-0, and have out-scored their opponents, 67-43, during the stretch.
• Vinny Prospal led all skaters with two points (one goal and one assist) and won 16 of 23 faceoffs (70%) in 20:22 of icetime; he now has 23 points (six goals and 17 assists) in 22 games on the season.
• Marian Gaborik notched his 16th goal of the season at 6:01 of the third to extend his point streak to six games (five goals and nine points); nine of his 16 goals were tallied in the third period.
• Michal Rozsival recorded an assist on Gaborik’s third period goal and logged 19:33 of icetime.
• Rookie defenseman Michael Del Zotto registered a team-high five hits in 20:36 of icetime; he currently leads all NHL rookies with 46 hits on the season.
• Sean Avery led all skaters with five shots and delivered four hits in 15:12 of icetime.