Rangers’ woeful power play keeps sinking without Adam Fox
The Rangers power play has not been much of a factor in the past seven games.
After going 0-for-4 on the power play in a 7-3 loss to the Blue Jackets Sunday night at Madison Square Garden, the Blueshirts now are 1-for-20 with the man advantage since Feb. 25.
āI think weāre getting good looks,ā Vincent Trocheck said. āI donāt know. I think if we knew the answer to that, weād be scoring more goals, but thereās been a lot in the last couple of games where I feel like we could have scored a few, and just, pucks didnāt go in.ā
Itās clear how much the Rangers are missing Adam Fox at the point, where the 27-year-old defenseman has quarterbacked the top power play for much of his tenure in New York.
Head coach Peter Laviolette also opted to reinsert Chris Kreider onto the first unit in place of Trocheck, who was bumped to the second group with Jonny Brodzinski, Alexis LafreniĆØre, Will Cuylle and KāAndre Miller.
The Rangers power play is ranked 24th in the NHL at 19.2 percent.
Juuso Parssinen was a healthy scratch for the first time since the Rangers acquired him earlier this month.
As a result, Brett Berard drew back into the lineup after serving as a healthy scratch in the previous game in Ottawa.
He slotted onto the right wing of the third line next to Kreider and Sam Carrick.
Artemi Panarin extended his goal-scoring streak to five games with a goal in Sundayās 7-3 loss, over which he has collected five goals and three assists.
It is his longest goal streak since Dec. 23-30, 2023.
His two-point effort against the Senators on Saturday counted as his 150th multi-point game with the Rangers, tying Steve Vickers for the seventh most in Rangers history.
Since Panarin came to New York in 2019-20, only four players have more multi-point games: the Oilersā Connor McDavid (213) and Leon Draisaitl (191), the Avalancheās Nathan MacKinnon (180) and the Bruinsā David Pastrnak (158).
The Rangers will be off Monday before they head to Winnipeg to face the Jets on Tuesday.
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