You Could See This Coming - Rangers Get Nucked By Vancouver

A trait of a good team is being able to start slowly and come back. A trait of a good team is to jump out early and keep adding.

The first scenario had happened in the last three Ranger home games and appeared to unfold against Wednesday. Just one problem, the pucks were turned over by players in blue jerseys a little much.

Vancouver's first four goals were the result of aggressive play that forced turnovers and bad defenders. The guilty parties were in order of appearance Michal Rozsival, Dmitri Kalinin, Wade Redden, Brandon Dubinsky and Lauri Korpikoski.

If you had watched recent games, you had seem some of the same stuff. The only difference Henrik Lundqvist was there to make the save. While he might have been able to stop the third, fourth and fifth goal, the odd-man rush are a tough one for anyone goalie no matter how good you are.

The Rangers are still on top of the Eastern Conference and still exciting, but there's an incomplete element to their game. They can look as good as they did in the second period a week ago in New Jersey, flat for two periods against Boston and Ottawa and awful against Vancouver, which is the type of team that likes to force those mistakes to happen.

Poor performances happen from time to time. Let those slow starts against Edmonton, Boston and Ottawa serve as a warning. If that's the lesson that was delivered Wednesday, we'll see if the Rangers were paying attention.