Last spring’s ultimate defeat, coming on top of a quite similar one 24 months earlier, must have proved once and for all that the Rangers’ skill game, impressive at it at could also be in spurts, doesn’t overcome their physicality deficiency on the final-four level.
As an alternative of learning from the defeat to the Panthers two years after the defeat to the Lightning, the Rangers apparently have chosen to take the “Everlasting Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” treatment.
Head coach Peter Laviolette, as well.
But not only have they erased the pounding from their memory, they’ve by some means turn into less physical than ever over the primary 18 games through which their 12-5-1 record is owed to superior goaltending and a superior team sense of how you can close out games.
Last spring’s ultimate defeat, coming on top of a quite similar one 24 months earlier, must have proved once and for all that the Rangers’ skill game, impressive at it at could also be in spurts, doesn’t overcome their physicality deficiency on the final-four level.
As an alternative of learning from the defeat to the Panthers two years after the defeat to the Lightning, the Rangers apparently have chosen to take the “Everlasting Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” treatment.
Head coach Peter Laviolette, as well.
But not only have they erased the pounding from their memory, they’ve by some means turn into less physical than ever over the primary 18 games through which their 12-5-1 record is owed to superior goaltending and a superior team sense of how you can close out games.
