The Rangers' slow start is surprising when you consider how one of the team's players, Ryan Reaves, is a great motivator. He demonstrated just that right before the game when he made an absolute show in the Rangers' locker room before the face-off:
Come to think of it, and looking at the stunned looks on his teammates' faces, perhaps it's fitting that New York took a long time, a period, in order to recover from that show...