Mika Zibanejad reminded one and all just how vital he is to the cause and just how empty it would be to bring Patrick Kane to Broadway if No. 93 were not there on the ice with him.
For the longest time, this was a night on which Blueshirts players who were not in the game commanded more attention than the ones who were skating against the Kings at the Garden.
The Rangers medical and training staff worked on Zibanejad. When the Blueshirts took the ice for the third period, more than a dozen came through the runway … before Zibanejad himself did the Willis Reed to ovations and chants from the crowd. at 16:37 of the first period. That left Gallant with four defensemen, split into Niko Mikkola-Adam Fox and Ben Harpur-Jacob Trouba tandems.
“I am so proud of the group we have in here and the way we responded after the game in Washington,” Zibanejad said of Saturday’s 6-3 defeat. “It was very impressive.”The Rangers had played ramshackle hockey unbecoming of this team. The talk about acquiring Kane that has dominated the discourse seemed to become a significant distraction. Then they reported for duty on Sunday to learn they would play short.
That is what the Blueshirts did. They did for the most part play straight-line hockey. They did for the most part avoid turnovers in the most vulnerable parts of the ice. They avoided the multitude of odd-man rushes against that had become an epidemic.
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