In his last 15 games, Mika Zibanejad has scored 12 goals with 10 assists, and the Rangers are 9-4-2 in that stretch.
In his first 15 games, Zibanejad scored one goal with two assists. The Rangers were 5-7-3.
Zibanejad does many other things for the Rangers besides score and assist on goals, of course. He plays on the No. 1 power-play unit and the first penalty-kill unit; he gets the fourth-most ice time on the team, and most of any forward (20:12 per game), and he usually matches up against the opposing team’s top line.
But clearly, the team is better when he is scoring and creating goals.