After all the disappointing play, and all the disillusioned talk, it’s almost difficult to remember Dan Boyle and the Rangers were a player-team match that theoretically made perfect sense when the veteran defenseman signed his two-year, $9 million pact in the summer of 2014.
But theory and real life have turned out to be quite far apart on this one.
“I’ve been doing this a long time,” Boyle said after practice on Wednesday, hours after being a healthy scratch in the fourth game of the season. “I haven’t played to my strengths, and yeah, I just haven’t played well.