The Rangers have looked bad the last few games, with yesterday’s clunker in Washington possibly the worst we’ve seen the Rangers all season. It won’t get better soon, as the Blueshirts are likely to play today’s game against the LA Kings with a short handed blue line
To clear the necessary cap space for Patrick Kane, the Rangers traded Vitali Kravtsov and waived Jake Leschyshyn yesterday. The Ryan Lindgren injury made things far worse, as the Rangers, already playing with 11 forwards, were down to 6 defensemen for most of the game.