The New York Rangers were once again depleted skating with 11 forwards and five defensemen. All thanks to the NHL’s ridiculous hard cap rules that punishes teams that try to improve themselves while others take on dead contracts just to reach the cap floor without spending actually to it.
Being shorthanded aside, the Rangers with their shiny new toy in Patrick Kane looked complete disjointed. And that goes double on the power play.
“It needs a lot of time to gel,” a frustrated Gerard Gallant said. “There’s a couple of guys in different positions and setups so we’ll work with it.