Every Ranger was a "+" as the Blueshirts completed a sweep of the season series with a 9-2 win over the Isles before a sellout crowd of 17,255 at UBS Arena. The Rangers outscored the Isles 23-5 in the season series. The Isles head to Philadelphia on Saturday and New Jersey on Sunday for a pair of matinee games.

It was your own imagination that put the pieces together around 11:30 or so, long past bedtime, shortly after the Islanders somehow blew a 3-0 third-period lead: Jude Drouin winning the overtime faceoff, pushing the puck to defenseman Bert Marshall, who slid it to his blue-line partner Dave Lewis, who dumped it into the Rangers’ zone.

The New York Rangers have already destroyed their own season. On Thursday, they took the New York Islanders down with them. The two New York teams have not really dignified themselves this year. We’ve catalogued it all,