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Progress and Positioning – The NY Rangers are improving and it’s hard to ignore

Blue Seat Blogs | February 13, 2020

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Going into this season the Rangers were going to be in one of three positions (for the sake of simplicity) heading into the trade deadline:

  1. Another complete or extensive sell-off
  2. A strategic/limited sell-off
  3. Standing pat

Now most fans, analysts, and models agreed that option three was a likely long shot, and that has rung true. The real kicker of this season is the turnaround that has been documented ad nauseum around these parts and on twitter. Starting in mid-December (Game 31, 12/12/19 to be exact), the underlying performances of the skaters went from tracking to be historically bad to suddenly NHL average.

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