Plus defense targets, who on the coaching staff does what and were the Rangers right to try to rescue the season?
Depth on defense may now be an issue, but the fourth line had a great day at the office against the Islanders.
With MJ.T. iller and Vincent Trocheck ensconced within the top six, Mika Zibanejad’s Broadway future might require a conversation.
It also whetted his appetite for more best-on-best hockey. Miro Heiskanen, Rasmus Ristolainen and Jani Hakanpää all missed the 4 Nations to injury, so competition for the Finnish Olympic roster will be more fierce. Vaakanainen acquitted himself well enough to at least be on the bubble, though.
In last night's victory against the New York Islanders, the Rangers' defensive core saw half of its active participants sent down the tunnel to the locker room.
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