In the aftermath of the Rangers’ inability to win what would have been a franchise-record 11th straight victory in Columbus on Sunday by instead going down 4-2 to the 29th-overall Blue Jackets, this might be instructive:

Of the 12 teams in NHL history that have posted winning streaks consisting of 13 games or more, only one has won the Stanley Cup, pending the outcome for the Oilers, who won 16 straight earlier in the season.

That was the 1981-82 Islanders, who broke the then-record of 14 by winning 15 straight — John Tonelli famously scoring the 3-2 winner against Colorado’s Chico Resch with 47 seconds remaining in the game in an era without overtime in the netminder’s first visit to the Coliseum since he was traded to the Rockies a year earlier — before capturing the third championship in four-Cup dynasty rung.

The other 10 teams that won 13 or more prior to this season did not make it. Some stunningly so.