Race for the playoffs: the Rangers are discouraged

In my title, I wrote the words “race for the playoffs” when talking about the Rangers. Know that I could have put those words in quotes because in fact, there is no real race for the playoffs right now.
As my colleague Félix Forget said yesterday, the “race” is really boring in the East and in the West.
In the West, the Flames are four points away from the Wild (with a game in hand… but without the tiebreaker) and it’s even worse in the East, as the ha