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Rangers head coach Mike Sullivan discusses how his team's early success this season contrasts with last year’s struggles. Currently on a four-game win streak, the Rangers are playing confidently and aggressively. Coach Sullivan highlights the team’s ability to maintain leads and their enthusiastic approach, attributing these successes to better role acceptance and increased confidence. The article also notes that rookie Cole Beaudoin has helped make the Rangers’ roster the youngest in the NHL this season.
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Story summary
The New York Rangers are currently on a four-game win streak, which is the longest active streak in the NHL. They will face off against the Washington Capitals on Friday night in Washington, D.C. This early success stands in stark contrast to last season when they struggled with poor performance and low morale at this point in the year. Head coach Mike Sullivan attributes their current confidence and enthusiasm to consistent victories and players embracing their assigned roles. According to Sullivan, such a win streak builds team confidence, which is crucial for continued success.
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The Rangers will carry the longest active win streak in the NHL (four games) into their matchup with the Capitals on Friday night in Washington, D.C.
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Rangers → carry → Rangers
tRY IT NOWAt this point in the season last year, the walls of the 2025-26 campaign were already beginning to close in on the Blueshirts as they went their first three home games without a single goal and had already lost three of their first five games by infuriating margins.
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they → try → margins
Head coach Mike Sullivan can already feel how the early success has affected his team.
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success → feel → team
“I think it makes a world of difference,” the second-year Rangers coach said before the club ventured to the nation’s capital following practice.
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club → think → practice
“When you can stack wins on top of one another, it breeds confidence.
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it → stack → confidence
Confidence is required to have success.
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Confidence → require → success
I think the group has done a great job in just buying into the team game.
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group → think → game
Everybody’s accepting of the roles we’ve cast them in.
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we → accept → them
There’s a level of enthusiasm around the group that, for me, is a whole lot of fun to be a part of.
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that → ’ → fun
“We can feel it.
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We → feel → it
We can feel it in the locker room.
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We → feel → room
We can feel it inside of our confines.
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We → feel → confines
When we go out, we’re playing the game, it’s tangible.
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it → go → game
You can hear it on the bench.
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You → hear → bench
An indication of it for me, you look at our third periods.
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you → look → periods
We’re playing to win.
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We → play → ?
“It’s fun to watch these guys play and perform that way.
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guys → ’ → fun
I think there are great lessons in that.
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I → think → that
We’re going to try to continue to encourage them in some of the things we’re doing well and why we’re having success.
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we → go → success
There are areas where we know we can grow and improve and get better, and we’re working with those as well.
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we → be → those
“This is the journey, every year, when you go to start training camp and it’s a clean slate.
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it → go → camp
It’s a whole new journey.
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It → ’ → ?
It’s been a whole lot of fun to coach these guys to this point.”
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It → coach → point
It’s still early in the season, but the Rangers have led (184:15) or been tied (111:58) in 296:14 of 300 minutes so far.
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Rangers → ’ → minutes
The shutout loss in Boston to open the season has been an outlier compared to the other four games the Rangers have had.
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Rangers → open → games
With the 20-year-old Cole Beaudoin recalled from Hartford, the Rangers officially have the youngest roster in the NHL with an average age of 26.47.
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Rangers → recall → 26.47
Allowing two or fewer goals in all four games he’s played, the most among all goaltenders so far this season, Rangers netminder Igor Shesterkin is off to an electric start.
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Shesterkin → allow → start
Since the 2019-20 season, the 172 times Shesterkin has allowed two or fewer goals rank fifth among all NHL goalies.
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Shesterkin → allow → goalies
He has also allowed one or fewer goals 94 times in his career, which amounts to the third most among goalies in that same span.
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which → allow → span
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