
| In the 2010 season the rangers failed to make the playoffs for the first time in 5 years. Off season acquisition of Superstar Marian Gaborik amongst other top tier players did not pay off despite Gaborik's 42 goal season. They did however have a great start winning 8 of the first 10 games. The season from there went very inconsistent with numerous losing streaks. The Rangers were in danger of falling out of the playoff race entirely in March but had a great 7-1-2 record to finish the season and bring them back into the playoff race. The versus the Philadelphia Flyers. The first was April 9th in New York seeing the Rangers skate away with the victory keeping their hopes alive. The final game of the season would become the deciding game to see who would make the playoffs. The Flyers peppered the Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist with 47 shots, but only scored once. The game would then go into a shootout seeing the Flyers prevail to move on to the post season and ending the Rangers season despite the late season surge the Rangers had. |
| Jágr was the fifth overall selection in the 1990 NHL Entry Draft. He would win two consecutive Stanley Penguins. In his career he has won the Art Ross Trophy Penguins. In his career he has won the Art Ross Trophy as the NHL's leading point scorer five times, received the Lester B. Pearson Award as voted by the NHL Players' Association three times, and won a Hart Trophy as the league's most valuable player. |