Raleigh, NC, the last three seasons and the expectations with which the Rangers reached the 2024-25 campaign are an important part of what a disappointment has done this season.
How the Blueshirts team that sat at the top of the Metropolitan Division for 24 consecutive weeks on the way to win the presidents trophy and a final end of the east conference was reduced to 22º in the NHL and Miss The Playoffs next season?
“You can’t appear and wait for the same way that he did last year,” said Vincent Trophack after the 7-3 defeat of the Rangers against the hurricanes. “We won it last year. We certainly don’t win it this year.”
The Rangers became the second team in the history of the franchise and only the fourth team in the history of the NHL having suffered such a catastrophic fall in disgrace.
The 1991-92/1992-93 blue t-shirts were the first to do so, but fans should be the fact that they won the Stanley Cup the later season in 1994.
Of course, that is the last time the Rangers lifted Lord Stanley for the Heroes Canyon.
Also on that list are the Buffalo Sabers 2006-07/2007-08 and the Boston Bruins 2013-14/2014-15.
“I don’t think it was a” because “problem,” said Chief coach Peter Laviolette, referring to the defensive errors that have affected the Rangers throughout the season. “He is putting two guys on the album or three boys in a man, so there are disaggers of coverage, sure. We leave it right in front of our network with the player the goalkeeper and that cost us tonight.
“That is what is brutal tonight, we end up working on a game, but we cool too much.”
The Rangers stayed with the same alignment that registered the highest total goals in the club since March 17, 2021, but were still eliminated.
That meant that rookies Gabe Perreault and Brennan Othmann They were healthy scratches once again, with the first one sitting out of a third consecutive game and the letter sat for the second consecutive contest.
“It was more than we needed a centroman,” Laviolette said about his decision to scratch Othmann to partulate. “If we were going to move Jonny [Brodzinski] In alignment [to the first line with Artemi Panarin and Vincent Trocheck]We would only have three centers in the middle.
“So [Juuso Parssinen] It has been a natural center for us, has been waiting to play and has played a fairly good game. He entered and won three points, so well for him. “
He recalled at the end of February, Othmann played in 20 of the first 21 Rangers games with him on the list. After serving as a healthy scratches against flames on March 18, Othmann was not task again until the victory of Thursday 9-2 over the islanders.
The 22 -year -old is still looking for his first NHL Gout 20 games in his career.
“He has had some games in which he is really remarkable,” said Laviolette about Othmann. “He is a good young player. Once again, they are alignment -based decisions. In what positions they should take. I can’t enter with three centers, so I need a fourth center.”
Igor Shesterkin He gave five goals in 26 shots in the defeat of the Rangers on Saturday.
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