With 43 games to go before Tuesday’s faceoff, the Rangers were four points out of a playoff spot with one game in hand– and will have to have to leapfrog six teams to secure that second

Filip Chytil scored twice and Brett Berard, Adam Fox and Ryan Lindgren each earned two assists to lift the visiting New York Rangers to a 6-2 rout of the Chicago Blackhawks on Sunday.

The Rangers won for the second time in three games and are 2-5 over their last seven games. The Blackhawks lost for the sixth time in seven starts. Brodzinski and Borgan scored in the final five minutes of the first period to give the Rangers a 2-1 lead.