GREENBURGH, N.Y. — The Rangers occasionally call on Rick Nash to kill penalties, and he is pretty good at using his long arms and stick to knock pucks the other way for the third-best unit in the N.H.L.
“I guess it’s something I’ve always enjoyed, and it’s fun to help your team out when you’re a man down,” Nash said Tuesday. “You need that extra effort when you’re down at the other end there.”
Nash, however, knows all too well that the Rangers are not paying him $7.9 million this season simply to put in some extra effort at the defensive end when the Rangers are short-handed.