Gerard Gallant doesn’t want to change his lines as much he has this season. But, the Rangers coach said, he’s had no choice.
"You change them up because you have to,’’ he said before his team closed out its pre-All-Star break schedule Tuesday at Madison Square Garden with a game against the NHL’s top team, the Florida Panthers.
"Guys are out of the lineup, and you're trying to mix and match,’’ he said. "And when you lose [Kaapo] Kakko and you lose Fil [Chytil] … you have different line combinations. So you try and make something work, make something fit.