The New York Rangers second round Stanley Cup Playoffs opponent, the Ottawa Senators, are pretty transparent in their on-ice actions. Head coach Guy Boucher is cut from the defensive cloth, one that sees the club attack with a fury of forechecking early, only to then sit back with the lead and rely on that dreaded neutral zone trap.
That dreaded “trap,” one similar to what the Blueshirts had to deal with against their Hudson River rivals in the New Jersey Devils decades ago, is still hanging around the NHL in a new slightly modified form.