If you thought the Rangers offense was bad in Sunday’s loss to the Canadiens, you were not imagining things. It was as bad as it gets — and Steve Valiquette has the data to prove it.
“I had never seen a game like that in three years,” the MSG Network analyst and former Rangers goaltender said before Game 4 of the Rangers’ first-round playoff series Tuesday. “Worst ever as a company that we’ve charted.”
Valiquette’s three-year-old company, Clear Sight Analytics, studies every shot — tens of thousands of them — in every NHL game, regular season and playoffs, to measure the quality of scoring chances.