A night that seemed like it would end in disaster, turned into a momentous 5-4 overtime victory for the New York Rangers over the Montreal Canadiens.

Sullivan pointed out that with the NHL’s points system, where teams get two points for a win, and one for an overtime or shootout loss, it is difficult to create separation between teams battling for position in the standings. So his message to the team is to just worry about your own games, and not your competition’s.

While the New York Rangers' disastrous spell in away games continues, their latest loss against the Chicago Blackhawks at the United Center has NY head coach Mike Sullivan in a total meltdown.

With a testing run of festive fixtures beginning with the visit of Hibs to Ibrox on Monday, and a squad ravaged by injury, it's now all about trying to claw their way back into the title reckonining for Rohl's Rangers.

Despite previous rumors, it seems unlikely that the Texas Rangers will trade one of their star player this offseason.

The Texas Rangers lost Phil Maton and Hoby Milner to the Chicago Cubs. They hope Alexis Diaz and Tyler Alexander are adequate replacements.

Rangers' Mohamed Diomande returns from suspension but Bojan Miovski picked up an injury against Ferencvaros and will be assessed while Joe Rothwell and Lyall Cameron did not feature in Hungary. Rangers remain without John Souttar,