Rangers flop once again in ugly Garden loss to cellar-dwelling Canucks

Home ice advantage has not existed at Madison Square Garden this season. 

If their six shutout losses, including this most recent 3-0 loss to the Canucks, doesn’t indicate just how dismally the Rangers have played at the World’s Most Famous Arena this season, the sounds of muffled conversations culminating into loud boo’s throughout the lower bowl Tuesday night sure did. 

With roughly 42 percent of the season gone, the Blueshirts have won a mere four games in front of their home crowd. 

Their futility at MSG has been jarring, as well as an insult to the fans who pay NYC prices to be there. 

Perhaps it’s been magnified under the pinwheel ceiling in Manhattan.

But, quite frankly, the same issues have more than periodically plagued the Rangers through all 35 of their games so far this season. 

Conor Sheary, who has played a majority of the season in the top six, has just one goal in 32 games. 

Fellow top-sixers Alexis Lafreniere and Vincent Trocheck have just one goal each in their last nine and 10 contests, respectively. 

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The scoring burden has fallen almost entirely on their marquee skaters in Artemi Panarin, Mika Zibanejad and J.T. Miller.

On Tuesday night, for the third time this season, the Rangers were defeated by a team sitting in last place in the NHL. 

The loss also dropped the Rangers to 0-5-1 in the second game of back-to-back slates. 

Talk of generating offensive opportunities is beginning to ring as hollow as the Rangers’ opposing nets.

Their seven total shutout losses lead the NHL.

And with 23 games remaining on home ice, that number is only going to grow if the Rangers don’t start defending that 100-year crest at center ice.