"Obviously, it's extremely disappointing," Lundqvist said after New York's season ended with a 4-2 loss to the Ottawa Senators in Game 6 of the second round at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday. "Quickly, you think about this series and I think there are two things that stand out: the odd-man rushes that they kind of took advantage of and our 6-on-5 play. That was the big difference in this series. Other than that, I thought we played really well. We created a lot of chances and played with a lot of speed and emotion.
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"But obviously losing all three up in Ottawa, where we had a chance to win a couple, I think, it hurt us big time in this series. It's a big one today to lose, but it definitely hurt us not getting it done up there being up a couple of goals."
Lundqvist started all 12 games for the Rangers in the 2017 Stanley Cup Playoffs. He went 6-6 with a 2.25 goals-against average, a .927 save percentage and one shutout.
But he allowed six goals in Game 2 of this series, two of which were scored in the final 3:19 of the third period to send that game to overtime. The Rangers lost 6-5 and returned to New York down 2-0 in the series.
"I think we played well enough to win a lot of games here," Lundqvist said. "We talked about it during the season that sometimes it is not about playing your best game, it is about finding a way to win games. They did that better than we did. But I thought we played really well. We put ourselves in a position to win almost every game. We just didn't get it done."