It sounds like Alain Vigneault saw enough positives in Tuesday’s strong final period to stick with his lineup changes.
The Rangers coach mixed up his lines in Tuesday’s 6-4 loss to the Blue Jackets, breaking up the Chris Kreider-Derek Stepan-Mats Zuccarello first line. He replaced Stepan with Mika Zibanejad, moved Stepan onto a line in between Rick Nash and Jimmy Vesey, and dropped Pavel Buchnevich to the fourth line with Brandon Pirri and Matt Puempel.
It resulted in three goals in less than four minutes, including goals by Vesey and Kreider on the reconstituted top two lines.