Rangers drop third straight with loss to Blues after GM signals he is looking for shake-up

The Rangers turned to their internal youth to resuscitate the team after an alarming finish to their four-game road trip, but it did not prevent the club from losing its third straight game.A more dramatic change was deemed necessary by the hierarchy even before the Blueshirts’ 5-2 loss to the Blues on Monday night at Madison Square Garden.The Post confirmed that president and general manager Chris Drury sent a memo to all 31 of his NHL counterparts announcing that the Rangers are open for business, specifically citing multiple players as available, not just their longest-tenured player, Chris Kreider, and captain, Jacob Trouba.As TSN’s Elliotte Friedman first reported, the Blueshirts have made it known that they are looking to shake things up.Surrendering three games in a row is something the Rangers did only once last season, when they dropped four straight from January 6-13.Management had evidently already come to the realization that alterations must be made, even without watching the Rangers fall to a St.Louis team that had lost seven of their past nine games.Coincidentally, Kreider did not suit up for Monday’s game against the Blues.

The Rangers said Kreider, who is in his 13th season in New York, is day-to-day with an upper-body injury.That, paired with Filip Chytil’s continued recovery from a non-concussion injury, opened the door for some major line changes and a call to AHL Hartford to bring up Matt Rempe and Brett Berard, who made his NHL debut Monday night.Shattering a 2-2 tie at the start of the third period with two goals within the first 8 ½ minutes of the final period, however, the Blues added insult to injury and piled on the Rangers even more.An empty-netter from former Ranger Pavel Buchnevich capped the game.The lone bright spot of the last 48 hours was Will Cuylle, who has been a force for the Rangers almost every single night since the start of the season.And the second-year Ranger delivered again with his fifth multi-point performance...