Neil Best first worked at Newsday in 1982, then returned in 1985. His SportsWatch column debuted on Sept.
GREENBURGH, N.Y. — There are no delicate questions left to ask these Rangers, so I tried a blunt one on Chris Kreider after practice Friday:
Do they have enough offensive firepower — even on a good day — to hang with the Penguins and other elite teams?
Kreider did not hesitate, saying, “(Eric) Staal’s got, I think, 13 career hat tricks. Rick Nash has got over 400-something goals, a multi-40-goal scorer. We’ve got guys coming off some career years.