When a mid-game lineup tweak results in four goals for a star player, the only thing to do is see it through.
“Got to try it again, for sure,” said Rangers head coach Gerard Gallant, who did just that by lining his team up for practice Monday at Rogers Arena the same way it ended Saturday’s 6-2 win over the Hurricanes on Saturday night, when Artemi Panarinafter swapping places with Chris Kreider to skate next to Vincent Trocheck.
The late second-period alterations certainly worked, propelling the Rangers to their fifth straight win and earned them their 69th and 70th points of the season. If changing the lines is an indication of Gallant’s will to win games, look no further than how the Rangers’ second-year coach has operated this entire season. line combinations the Rangers have deployed
As Trocheck told The Post’s Larry Brooks after facing his former team for the first time since signing with the Rangers as a free agent last offseason, the 29-year-old center may have started to grip his stick a little tighter amid all the talk that he didn’t mesh well with Panarin. After being brought in to do so, that notion could get into any player’s head.
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