SUNRISE, Fla. — The Rangers have found a fourth line foundation that has turned a nagging problem area into a potential legitimate strength, and it took shape after Dominic Moore returned from a strange two-game exile as a healthy scratch.
Then again, for the third straight game in Saturday’s thrilling 5-4 overtime victory over the Panthers, the fourth line became the de facto third unit, so numerical line designations may not mean a whole lot.
A career center, Moore, who has the versatility to play the wing, has settled in on the left with Jarret Stoll in the middle and Jesper Fast on the right to create a unit that has created strong down low zone time off an effective forecheck, though not so much in this one, in which the Rangers were scrambling most of the way.