NEW YORK - Opening night for the Tampa Bay Lightning took place on the first day of October, but it might as well have been All Hallows' Eve based on how scary the game played out.
Up and down the lineup, from start to finish, every stride on the ice at Madison Square Garden felt like turning a corner inside a haunted house where the deeper into the house they went, the scarier it got. Right up until the very end when Igor Shesterkin accomplished something no goaltender in the history of the New York Rangers had ever done in more than 100 years.
"Obviously, not the way we want to start,'' Bran...
