NEW YORK — The New York Rangers had the NHL’s best record last year. “We’re not feeling great about that – for sure,’’ said Artemi Panarin, New York’s leading scorer who was held without a point by his former team on Monday. “We’ve got to play better so we don’t hear that anymore.” The Blackhawks — who hadn’t won a …
When the Carolina Hurricanes tried to storm back in Round 2, the New York Rangers started to look exposed. Game 5 wasn’t much kinder to Trouba: a minus-13 shot attempt difference, sub-26 percent expected goals rate and minus-1 goal differential at five-on-five. On paper, a player with a 47 percent expected goals rate through 10 playoff games doesn’t exactly raise …
