TORONTO — Everyone has been focusing on the fact that the Rangers haven’t scored a lot of goals, and none at all at home.

But they haven’t given up a lot of goals, either.

Going into Thursday night’s game against the Maple Leafs at Scotiabank Arena, the Rangers had scored only 10 goals in their first five games, but they’d allowed only seven. Their 1.40 goals-against per game was second-best in the league, bettered only by the Edmonton Oilers, who shut them out in their last game Tuesday at the Garden.

And while the work of goaltenders Igor Shesterkin (.972 save percentage) and Jonathan Quick (.952) certainly had something to do with the skimpy goals-against number, their overall team defense has been better than it had been for much of the past few years.

Which is why the Rangers ha

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