Where should Peter Laviolette start with the Rangers? Probably addressing the same issues they’ve struggled with dating back two coaching regimes.
the hiring of Peter LavioletteAfter the team fell way short of expectations in the playoffs, not only will part of the onus fall on Laviolette to change the narrative around the Blueshirts, but he will be inheriting a team that can get stuck in its ways at times.Laviolette will probably want to start there.More often than not, the Rangers’ X-factors have been special teams and star goalie Igor Shesterkin’s standout play.
This past season, the Rangers finished at 49.80, up slightly from marks of 47.03 percent in 2021-22 and 47.19 in 2020-21. It’s not that the Rangers are always on their heels, it’s just that during the spurts when they are, the team bleeds scoring chances at an alarming rate. When it rains, it pours.A staple on the Rangers’ fix list, the team continues to struggle on faceoffs.
The rest of the primary draw takers, however, were below 50 percent. Mika Zibanejad, who took a team-leading 1,398 faceoffs, finished with a 49.5 faceoff win percentage. Barclay Goodrow won 45.9 percent, and Filip Chytil won a mere 39.8 percent of the 631 draws he took. Shesterkin limited the damage from how many times the Rangers surrendered odd-man rushes, but it was a hindrance all the same.
Cheating a bit on defense has to be part of the game for a team such as the Rangers with such an abundance of high-skill talent, but there needs to be a stronger system in place to limit all of the 2-on-1s and 3-on-2s.As explosive as the Rangers could be on offense, they struggled to generate goals on second- and third-chance opportunities.
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