Rangers remain winless at Garden, booed off ice after ugly loss to Hurricanes

The Rangers are the biggest flop on Broadway these days and exited the ice at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday to a chorus of boos.

In what’s been a stunning start to their season, the Rangers have dropped their first six games at home, an ugly streak that continued with a 3-0 loss to Carolina.

They last won a game at the Garden on April 17 — the final game of last season — and have been shut out in four of their six home games.

After a hellish start to their home schedule, the Rangers seemingly righted themselves on a recent Western swing and entered Tuesday having won three straight.

But all of their home woes continued against the Hurricanes: an inability to score or take advantage of chances.

And their power-play struggles continued. They entered the game 0-for-9 with an extra man in their previous four games and added to it Tuesday with three more missed chances.

Prior to the game, head coach Mike Sullivan said he wanted the team to “simplify” its game.

Carolina Hurricanes center Seth Jarvis reacts after Carolina Hurricanes left wing Nikolaj Ehlers scores a goal in the first period at Madison Square Garden on Nov. 4, 2025. JASON SZENES/ NY POST

“We’ve got to be ready from the drop of the puck,” Sullivan said. “We have to simplify [and] just play the most simple version of our game. I think that will allow us to establish the game we had on the road.”

Well, the Rangers at least did that, outshooting the Hurricanes 13-4 in the early going.

But they failed to beat Pyotr Kochetkov, the latest middling goaltender to stymie the Rangers in his season debut after being sidelined with a lower-body injury.

And they got just 12 shots the rest of the way, drawing boos from the crowd after a turnover midway through a miserable third period.

Their game began to slip when Vladislav Gavrikov took a slashing penalty at 13:01 of the first period.

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Carolina’s Nikolaj Ehlers fired one past Igor Shesterkin less than 30 seconds later for the game’s first goal.

Sean Walker added the second Hurricanes goal of the night at 17:07 of the second, not long after the Rangers began hearing some boos from the home crowd that already had seen them blanked three times in their first three games at MSG, followed by two more defeats.

Artemi Panarin’s scoring issues continued, as he was stopped on a point-blank shot early in the first period, and the second line followed with some solid chances of their own in the first, with Alexis Lafrenière also failing to deliver on a one-timer.

Rangers defenseman Adam Fox reacts while on the ice in the second period at Madison Square Garden in New York, November 4, 2025. JASON SZENES/ NY POST

And then there was J.T. Miller, also unable to come through on several opportunities.

Trailing by a pair of goals entering the third period, the Rangers spent much of it skating on quicksand and collected just one shot, from Sam Carrick, that didn’t come close to testing Kochetkov.

Carolina’s Seth Jarvis added an empty-netter to complete the scoring.

Fortunately for the Blueshirts, their next game is on the road in Detroit on Friday — although the Red Wings, unlike the Rangers, have been excellent at home — before they return to the Garden for a pair of games against the Islanders and Predators.