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The impressive work by young roster candidates Brett Berard, Gabe Perreault and Brennan Othmann overshadowed the Rangers’ second straight third-period breakdown in Tuesday’s 5-4 preseason defeat to the Islanders at the Garden after holding a 4-2 lead at the intermission.

This was a different roster from Tuesday’s 5-4 OT defeat to the Devils in which the Blueshirts surrendered a 4-1 lead in the third.

This one might have rested more squarely on Hartford’s projected No. 1 netminder Dylan Garand, who surrendered a couple of wonky ones after replacing Jonathan Quick at the 40-minute mark

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