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Mike Sullivan is already seeing fruit of Rangers’ early success

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Walker, M. (2026, October 8). Mike Sullivan is already seeing fruit of Rangers’ early success. New York Post. https://nypost.com/2026/10/08/sports/mike-sullivan-is-already-seeing-fruit-of-rangers-early-success/

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New York Post · collected 2026-10-08 · by Mollie Walker

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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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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 articles discuss different phases of the Rangers' season, with Article A covering early wins against the Lightning and Mammoth, while Article B discusses their four-game win streak including a matchup with the Capitals.”
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🔮 And when the Rangers finally started to catch some momentum following J.T. Miller’s fourth goal of the season, Reimer couldn’t track a one-timer from Drew Doughty at the top of the zone and his team lost any push it had just as quickly as it started.
🔮 If a certain percentage of the ones that hit the posts have gone in the net, we wouldn’t be having this conversation.
🔮 The Rangers struggled mightily with clearing the puck and breaking it out of their zone, which led to Batherson’s second of the game less than two minutes into the second period.
2026-10-25 · assertive framing · Rangers outgunned by Senators after another slow start
🔮 tRY IT NOWThe adjustment to having three lefties (Pavel Dorofeyev, Alexis Lafrenière, J.T. Miller) and two righties (Adam Fox and Mika Zibanejad), as opposed to the four-righty alignment they’ve deployed the last seven seasons, is apparently more significant than one would expect.
🔮 With effective spurts that haven’t always been enough to demand results, the second line hopes that staying the course will pay off.
🔮 Teams will have to face Igor Shesterkin (when he returns from injury next season), Ilya Sorokin and Hellebuyck during the New York-New Jersey swing.
🔮 In his sixth consecutive start, rookie netminder Dylan Garand struggled mightily with rebound control.
🔮 “As soon as I stepped on the ice, I could feel the energy.
🔮 tRY IT NOWAgainst the clubs projected to finish near the bottom of the standings — such as the Red Wings, Canucks and Ducks — the Rangers have won by a combined margin of 13-4.
🔮 “I think the biggest thing in-zone — and this is a discussion we’ve had with our group — is our willingness to create off the shot more,” Sullivan said.
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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. Access the Rangers beat like never before Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Mollie Walker about the inside buzz on the Rangers.
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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. Access the Rangers beat like never before Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Mollie Walker about the inside buzz on the Rangers.
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Mike Sullivan is already seeing fruit of Rangers’ early success · assertive framing

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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. Access the Rangers beat like never before Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Mollie Walker about the inside buzz on the Rangers. asserted
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. asserted
they → try → margins
Head coach Mike Sullivan can already feel how the early success has affected his team. asserted
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. asserted
club → think → practice
“When you can stack wins on top of one another, it breeds confidence. asserted
it → stack → confidence
Confidence is required to have success. asserted
Confidence → require → success
I think the group has done a great job in just buying into the team game. asserted
group → think → game
Everybody’s accepting of the roles we’ve cast them in. asserted
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. asserted
that → ’ → fun
“We can feel it. asserted
We → feel → it
We can feel it in the locker room. asserted
We → feel → room
We can feel it inside of our confines. asserted
We → feel → confines
When we go out, we’re playing the game, it’s tangible. asserted
it → go → game
You can hear it on the bench. asserted
You → hear → bench
An indication of it for me, you look at our third periods. asserted
you → look → periods
We’re playing to win. asserted
We → play → ?
“It’s fun to watch these guys play and perform that way. asserted
guys → ’ → fun
I think there are great lessons in that. asserted
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. asserted
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. asserted
we → be → those
“This is the journey, every year, when you go to start training camp and it’s a clean slate. asserted
it → go → camp
It’s a whole new journey. asserted
It → ’ → ?
It’s been a whole lot of fun to coach these guys to this point.” asserted
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. asserted
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. asserted
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. asserted
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. asserted
Shesterkin → allow → start
Since the 2019-20 season, the 172 times Shesterkin has allowed two or fewer goals rank fifth among all NHL goalies. asserted
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. asserted
which → allow → span
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