Rangers center Mika Zibanejad looks on before a face off against the Arizona Coyotes in the first period of an NHL game at Madison Square Garden on Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022. Credit: Kathleen Malone-Van Dyke
To hear Mika Zibanejad tell it, losing the team’s first-line right wing to an injury just moments before the opening faceoff in Saturday’s game against the Arizona Coyotes wasn’t anything that was going to faze these Rangers. Not the way this season has gone so far.
"With the waiting for all the negative, positive [COVID-19] tests, or all the test results… I feel like we've played with most of the guys at this point,’’ Zibanejad said at Monday’s morning skate.