But General Manager Jeff Gorton said more moves could come before Monday's 3 pm deadline, though the uncertainty of the market of course plays a factor.
"I think there's a lot of work that can be done, that could be done," Gorton said Sunday before the team's loss to the Red Wings. "Will it get done? We'll see. There's a lot of time for this. As we move forward, there's other opportunities and times that work well too to do these kinds of deals."
That's for tomorrow.
The current group of Blueshirts felt they did enough to win, especially battling back from a 2-0 deficit early in the second period to tie the game midway through the third before Trevor Daley's winner with 5.6 seconds remaining in the overtime.
But right now, luck simply isn't on their side.
"We give ourselves a chance to win. It was a pretty hard-fought game and we had a lot of looks," said J.T. Miller, who's second period power play goal got the Rangers to within 2-1 after Detroit scored the game's first two goals. "Just coming up on the wrong side of things lately."
The Rangers found themselves playing from behind again Sunday after Andreas Athanasiou opened the scoring with 6.7 seconds remaining in the first period. It was the third straight game and seventh time in the last eight games New York failed to score the game's first goal.
Darren Helm doubled the lead after John Gilmour lost his balance at the Detroit blueline, allowing Helm to break in and beat Henrik Lundqvist on the breakaway 4:31 into the second.
Miller's goal at 7:51 brought the Rangers to within a goal, and Jesper Fast evened the score when he buried a rebound off a Kevin Hayes shot at 11:16 of the third.
Ryan Spooner, who was acquired from Boston in part of the Nash deal, picked up assists on both goals, but said coming out on the wrong side of the result tarnishes more of the positive feeling from his individual performance.
"At the end, it's important to win," said Spooner, who finished with 16:31 of ice time. "That's the goal of each game. That didn't happen. There's a couple plays tonight that I thought I could have been a little harder on, but I thought as a whole, I thought it was a good game. It would have been nice to win but it just didn't happen tonight."
But as its gone for the Rangers as of late, a bounce proved to be the difference between victory and defeat, as Chris Kreider hit the crossbar in overtime, leaving open the chance for Daley to redirect a Frans Nielsen pass in the slot in the dying seconds to send the Rangers home frustrated.
"We can't catch a break right now," said Lundqvist, who finished with 31 saves. "We're hitting iron, we're getting some good looks and create some good chances to win this game. I don't know what else to say."
The losses hurt, but Lundqvist was encouraged by his team's performance for nearly 65 minutes, and understands there will be hiccups with such a young roster.
"It's a step forward for us the way we played the game," he said. "We need to learn from our mistakes. A lot of guys are playing their first five, 10 games need to understand when to go for it and when to get back so we don't give up these odd-man rushes that have been hurting us these last few games. It's a learning experience."
