The NHL season is into its second month. It isn’t so early anymore. And as the Rangers continue to be unable to score goals in Madison Square Garden, their insistence that the goals would come eventually , as long as they continue to play well, is beginning to wear thin.

The Carolina Hurricanes’ Pyotr Kochetkov, making his season debut after missing the first 11 games with a lower-body injury, became the latest goaltender to come into the Garden and look like a Hall of Famer.

Kochetkov made 25 saves — including 15 in the first period, but only one in the third — to backstop the Hurricanes to a 3-0 victory Tuesday over the Rangers . It was the fourth time in six home games this season that the Rangers have been shut out, and they remain winless at home.

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