Daily double alert regarding the Rangers who, after losing to the then-32nd and last-overall Blackhawks at the Garden on Dec. 9, have the opportunity to lose to the current-32nd and last-overall Predators in Nashville on Tuesday.

1. Kaapo Kakko has not been close to being a singular problem through the Blueshirts’ slide, but head coach Peter Laviolette thought that scratching the Finn in St. Louis on Sunday would be a solution.

It is time to move on. It is not going to pop here. And even when it kind of does, even when there is a glimmer, it is never quite sustainable, the puck still doesn’t go in, it is always a disappointment.

And I’m sure for Kakko, too, whose ceiling gets lower by the week.