It’s been a problem for the Rangers all season long, and it showed once again on Wednesday night in a 6-3 loss to the Canadiens at The Garden. A lack of discipline led to too many silly penalties at critical points and two big power-play opportunities for Montreal, which they capitalized on.

Heading into the third period tied at two, Aaron Voros was sent off for a questionable hooking penalty. Despite the Rangers’ strong penalty kill, they had no chance to even try and stop the Canadiens from scoring. Tomas Plekanec won the face-off back to Andrei Markov who blasted a shot by Lundqvist to take the 3-2 advantage.

A little over a minute after Markov’s goal, Callahan took an inadvertent high-sticking penalty then Scott Gomez went off 35 seconds later for an inexcusable holding the stick call. Montreal’s response? Robert Lang put one past Lundqvist of a rebound at 4:40 into the period to put the Canadiens out in front by two.

After Michal Rozsival scored two minutes later on a beautiful one-timer in front, the Rangers failed to score the equalizer and Lang put it away for good with a beautiful wrister over Lundqvist’s shoulder at 15:29 for a 5-3 lead. He would later get the hat trick, scoring short-handed on a Rangers power play late.

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