When the Rangers talk about “pace” concerning their young players, end-to-end skating ability is hardly the whole of it. In the case of 18-year-old Filip Chytil, he already has significantly impressed in that area.
Instead, the real “pace” Chytil needs to adjust to is that at which decisions are made. In a scoreless game late in the first period Saturday, the Hurricanes were in one of their many chaotic scrambles in front of Henrik Lundqvist, and the puck popped out to Chytil near the right post.