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Lundqvist: ‘It can only go up’ for Rangers

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After Tuesday’s 4-1 loss to the Nashville Predators, Henrik Lundqvist told reporters that it’s the worst stretch he’s endured - individually and for the team - since he landed with the New York Rangers in 2005-06.

He did provide The Bergen Record’s Andrew Gross with some optimism, too, though ... kind of.

“The only thing I know right now is it can only go up,” Lundqvist said.

Ah yes, the glass-can’t-get-any-less-full approach.

In other grim news, Rangers head coach Alain Vigneault mentioned after the game that the squad lacks the personnel required to make his offensive-minded gameplan work. That comment must leave GM Glen Sather bristling, as John Tortorella also implied that the team lacked the needed firepower to get over the hump after the Washington Capitals bumped them out of the 2011 playoffs.

Losing versatile captain Ryan Callahan for four-to-six weeks probably won’t help the Rangers personnel-wise, either, so times are tough for New York.

The Rangers have dropped the first three games of a nine-game homestand, so the question is whether this series of contests at Madison Square Garden might be a curse in disguise. Then again, if you ask Lundqvist, it can’t get much worse.

At least that’s what the Rangers hope.