The Rangers broke up his top-line pairing of Chris Kreider and Mika Zibanejad, with the latter skating between Artemi Panarin and Alexis Lafreniere.
Peter Laviolette hasn’t been one to completely blow up his forward lines and defensive pairings during his first two seasons coaching the Rangers, so Saturday’s practice configurations amounted to a significant shake-up.lifting the Blueshirts to a 7-2-1 record over their first 10 games entering Sunday’s home matinee against the Islanders.
“Just to give it a change. That’s three out of four games where I don’t think we’ve taken it the way we want to offensively, so we gave it a different look in practice,” Laviolette said after the workout in Tarrytown. “Again, if we went and dominated game. … We won the game, that’s good. We’re in the game-winning business.Peter Laviolette’s options with one line holding Rangers back
Thus, he also reunited last year’s primary defensive pairings in Saturday’s practice — Adam Fox with Ryan Lindgren, and Jacob Trouba with K’Andre Miller. “I told them I’m nervous, new kid on the block,” Zibanejad said jokingly. “No, I’ll try to play my game, but obviously trying to adapt a little, too, because they’re used to each other and obviously used to Troch’. That line has been unbelievable for us.”
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