Coming off back-to-back road losses Friday and Saturday to Edmonton and Calgary, two of the top teams in the NHL, the Rangers found themselves returning home Monday night to another league heavyweight: the league-leading Florida Panthers. And if that wasn’t challenging enough, third line center Filip Chytil was unavailable to play, due to what the team was calling an upper-body injury.
And this all comes at a time when first-year Rangers coach Gerard Gallant admitted he is still searching for the right line combinations for his team.
"We're looking to play better, there's no doubt about that,’’ Gallant said after the Rangers’ morning skate at their Greenburgh, N.