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This has been a long, strange trip through the opening seven weeks of the season, hasn’t it?

It feels like 12-7-1 is a typo.

But after 5-0-1, it’s been 7-7 while being outscored, 43-36, with a power play that has gone 5-for-33. The Rangers have not beaten a top team since Game 5 in Toronto on Oct. 19.