NEW YORK -- The New York Rangers understood the task.

For one game at least, they stayed on it for 60 minutes.

"It wasn't perfect by any stretch, but I thought our intentions were in the right place and as a result it was a much lower-event game," Rangers coach Mike Sullivan said after a slump-busting 3-2 win against the St. Louis Blues at Madison Square Garden on Monday. "We weren't trading chance for chance and opening the game up and giving a ridiculous amount of high-quality looks. If you play the game the right way you can create your offense through your defense."

The Rangers were not doing that in the previous four games before the Blues rolled into town Monday.

It landed them in a hole that will take some digging to get out of.

The Rangers lost four consecutive games in reg

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