The debate about the Rangers’ power-play units began long before Alexis Lafreniere entered the picture.
But a few times every season, one of the most formidable aspects of the Blueshirts’ game will hit a stretch or produce a run of statistics that beg the question of whether there should be more balance among the player groups and ice-time distribution.Three of those were produced by PP1, but one came from PP2 and the most recent came with Lafreniere on with the first group in place of Mika Zibanejad.Before Thursday’s win, the Rangers ranked sixth in the NHL in power-play percentage at 26.2.
Still, for someone like Zac Jones, who is getting a legit run quarterbacking PP2 alongside Lafreniere, Reilly Smith, Filip Chytil and Kaapo Kakko, the last four games have seen the 24-year-old get some of his most substantial man-advantage time since 2022-23. “We as an organization just don’t see the benefit of a young player, a first-year player, a second-year player, just sitting here and not playing. I think that there is value to practicing at the NHL level and going out every day and practicing with NHL players — the speed, the pace of practice and how that goes.
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