from Larry Brooks of the New York Post,
Who am I to refute Bill Parcells, but Regarding the Rangers, does anyone think that 6-2-2 is what they truly are even though much of the time they look like they are 2-6-2, instead?
1. There are underlying concerns throughout much of the lineup, but let’s start at the top, because the Blueshirts are not getting nearly enough from neither Artemi Panarin nor Mika Zibanejad, and if this somehow keeps up, the team has no chance.
Zibanejad has scored one goal at five-on-five, that one in Toronto in the fourth game of the season. Panarin, horribly deficient coming back on J.T. Miller’s second-chance decisive overtime goal in Monday’s 3-2 defeat in Vancouver, somehow doesn’t even have one, yet.
Is there any wonder that the Rangers have scored the sum of 13 five-on-five goals through 10 games?
Not to provide cover for these two essential players who by the way were going to be liberated with the change behind the bench from David Quinn to Gerard Gallant, I do wonder whether the new head coach’s simpler d-zone system that features a fair number of whack-it-outs has had the unintended consequence of suppressing odd-man rushes and open-ice possession through the neutral zone triggered by headman passes.
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