Ryan Strome has been a healthy scratch before, but this latest benching — Strome will miss his second straight game Monday night against the Flames at Barclays Center — seems to be confounding to the 23-year-old forward who was the fifth pick of the 2011 draft.
“It doesn’t really matter what I think... I’ve either got to play better or find a way to make them more happy, I guess,” Strome said after finishing his extra on-ice work Monday morning at Northwell Health Ice Center. “You can talk all you want about what you do or don’t do, obviously we’re not winning so something’s got to change.