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Leonard: Rangers coach must find balance with Martin

Everyone knows Martin St. Louis — Marty, to those who know him — will do whatever it takes.

The 39-year-old career right wing volunteered to play center, for Lord Stanley’s sake, at the beginning of the Rangers’ season when Derek Stepan was sidelined with a broken left fibula. On several nights, St. Louis started in between Anthony Duclair and Rick Nash.

Look it up.

That experiment in the middle was short-lived, though, because it was neither the position that made use of St. Louis’ Hall-of-Fame talents best nor was it the ideal fit for Alain Vigneault’s system.