Before we get into the reasoning and the examples, before we walk down the road of the why and why not, let’s get one thing out of the way now:
The Rangers are not a playoff team. If the 7-2 drubbing by the Pittsburgh Penguins last night didn’t prove it to you, well I’m not sure why you needed THAT result to prove it to you anyway.
Not a single team have less than their 12 ROW (regulation and overtime wins), and the advanced metrics paint a similar story of struggles that are somewhat masked by a few forwards and a single Henrik Lundqvist.