The New York Rangers noticed their power-play woes with out Adam Fox quickly disappear once they pulled off a powerful comeback win over the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday.
Two nights later, the Rangers performed with out Fox and Mika Zibanejad, and their difficulties on particular groups reappeared.
After Zibanejad sat out Monday for being late to a crew assembly, the Rangers hope his return might help their energy play on Tuesday once they host the retooled Vancouver Canucks.
The Rangers are 2-for-17 on the person benefit in seven video games since putting Fox on long-term injured reserve as a consequence of a left shoulder harm. The defenseman received harm within the third interval of a 4-1 loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning on Nov. 29.
New York went 2-for-2 on the ability play in a 5-4 time beyond regulation win towards Montreal, marking the fourth time this season the Rangers scored a number of targets on the person benefit.
In a 4-1 residence loss to the Anaheim Geese on Monday, the Rangers went 0-for-4 on energy performs regardless of logging 10 of their 27 photographs on objective in these conditions. New York additionally allowed a short-handed and a power-play objective, marking the primary time it allowed one among every this season.
“Even since Cunning’s gone down, we have had quite a lot of transferring components there to try to discover some consistency in it the place we’re comfy with a bunch of 5,” New York coach Mike Sullivan mentioned of the power-play woes. “So we have had quite a lot of completely different folks and quite a lot of transferring components.
“Clearly we might wish to choose one thing till Cunning will get again within the lineup that provides us extra of a semblance of consistency that provides us an opportunity to construct some chemistry.”
Zibanejad, who leads the crew with six power-play targets, was a wholesome scratch because the Rangers had been held to at least one objective or fewer for the ninth time in 16 residence video games this season. Sullivan conformed that Zibanejad would return on Tuesday.
“We had a dialogue and moved on,” Sullivan mentioned. “He is an essential participant for us. He is a terrific participant and he is a terrific individual.”
Vancouver will probably be enjoying its second sport since buying and selling star defenseman Quinn Hughes to the Minnesota Wild on Friday for forwards Marco Rossi and Liam Ohgren, rookie defenseman Zeev Buium and a 2026 first-round decide.
All three newcomers debuted Sunday afternoon when the Canucks began a five-game highway journey with a 2-1 win over the New Jersey Devils.
Jake DeBrusk and Buium scored power-play targets within the opening 6:48, marking the primary time since Nov. 17 and fifth time total this season that Vancouver scored a number of power-play targets. Rossi was on a line with DeBrusk and Brock Boeser after sitting out since Nov. 11 as a consequence of a lower-body harm.
Buium additionally had an help on DeBrusk’s objective after gathering three targets and 11 assists in 31 video games for the Wild. His 16 factors are second amongst rookies behind high total decide Matthew Schaefer, who has 23 factors for the New York Islanders.
“He is received confidence,” Vancouver coach Adam Foote mentioned. “I imply, he is so younger, 20 years previous. He noticed him stroll the road and his swag, you could have it to have the ability to run an influence play up there like that, and he has it. It was good to observe.
“I additionally appreciated Rossi, like rather a lot. He performs it the correct manner. He is very predictable. Comes up excessive, does his job. He makes the correct play, (if it is a) cross, he handed, if it is time to shoot, he’ll shoot.”
The Canucks are 3-8-1 of their previous 12 video games as they shoot for simply their second successful streak of the marketing campaign. Vancouver gained three straight from Oct. 16-19 to cap a 4-2-0 begin however hasn’t had back-to-back wins another time.
–Subject Degree Media
