Artemi Panarin at Rangers training camp on July 14, 2020. Credit: Nick Homler/NY Rangers/Nick Homler
The Rangers have not been scoring enough goals this season, and it won’t help if their leading scorer, Artemi Panarin, is going to have to miss any time.
Panarin has five goals and 10 assists (15 points), which means he has scored or assisted on nearly half of the Rangers’ 31 goals. It also is as many points as the team’s next two leading scorers (Pavel Buchnevich, eight points, and Adam Fox, seven) have combined. So the fact that Panarin was clearly suffering from some discomfort that severely limited his ice time in the third period of Wednesday’s 3-2 overtime loss to the Boston Bruins is quite concerning for coach David Quinn and his staff.