The Rangers finished last season leaving so many opportunities unclaimed, leaving so many questions forever hovering about how different their Stanley Cup run might have ended.
Too many times, 2 minutes would pass on a power play and the score would remain the same, with the dynamic completely different. Two minutes of failure would lead to many more minutes of frustration and pressure, handing momentum to an opponent that should have been sapped of it.
After failing to convert on 90 power plays (13-for-103, 12.6 percent) in the postseason last year, the Rangers opened this year’s playoffs replicating their power play impotence with painful accuracy, capitalizing on just two of their first 17 opportunities.