RALEIGH, N.C. – Monday’s win over the St. Louis Blues was a nice, feel-good thing for the Rangers. It allowed them to talk about how they’d gotten back to playing the way they had been playing earlier in the season, when they were proud of their tight defensive game, and all those scoring chances they’d been generating.

“When you look at the way the season’s played out to this point, it’s been a tale of two teams,’’ coach Mike Sullivan told reporters at Tuesday’s practice in Greenburgh. “And I think early on the first dozen or so games… I feel like the game we were putting on the ice, the identity that we were trying to build was giving us a chance to win.’’

After the game, Sullivan and the players talked about how against St. Louis they were able to get back to the way they played in th

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