There was a real possibility the Rangers could’ve entered this holiday break with their season hanging in the balance given how their season started.
With a goalie like Igor Shesterkin, there are too many saves that fit this category. As great as his Oct. 25 sprawling save on Mikko Rantanen’s breakaway in the first meeting with the Avalanche was, the pokecheck Shesterkin made on Jack Hughes’ penalty shot when the Rangers were trailing 3-1 to the Devils on Dec. 12 mattered more. The Rangers went on to win 4-3 in overtime.
“I think we’ve done it so many times in the past, it’s not always there, but just happened to be there and he made an unbelievable play,” Kreider said at the time. “I just kind of take off, he sees it. Been playing long enough, I know that he’s going to make that play.” In such an up-and-down season, there’s been just as many gloomy quotes as positive ones. Shesterkin’s “the goalie played a s–t game again, I’m ashamed” proclamation was an unforgettable one.
But it was Jacob Trouba’s all-encompassing quote about the state of the Rangers at the lowest point of the season that stands out. “We’re going through it,” the Rangers captain said. “There’s a lot of the story left to be written. It’s not a done thing by any means, but it’s going on for a bit now and something needs to change. There needs to be a little more of a pushback from ourselves within.” The 5-3 win over Islanders just before break, because of what it stood for and who it was against. The 4-3 loss to the Oilers on Nov. 26.
The most recent was moving Vincent Trocheck away from Panarin and forging the Kreider-Trocheck-Vesey line in the last eight games. Zac Jones had one stretch of six straight games this season. Every other run was only two to three games. No young player is going to be able to get into a groove under such circumstances. Now, Jones is in Hartford and Ben Harpur is currently the Rangers’ sixth defenseman — and the organization still doesn’t know what it has in Jones.
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