Of the small sample size of games the Blueshirts have had, this one could prompt a coach to reevaluate some things.
“I don’t think you just put it out there and let it go, you have to evaluate it,” Laviolette said of the lineup before the Rangers lost for the second time this season. “I do think you have to give it a little bit of time, but there are situations, winning and losing factors into it, health factors into it. An opponent may factor in to what you think might be good for a line or good for somebody on a line, or a D pair, giving them a responsibility.
Nashville broke open the scoring with the game’s first four goals, two from Cole Smith in the opening 20 minutes and two on the power play, for a 4-0 lead by the 13:51 mark of the second period. If the puck wasn’t in the Rangers’ zone, it was getting picked off in the neutral zone and hammered back into their zone.
The Rangers’ top-nine have remained the same since the start of the season, while the defensive pairs have only been switched up due to Ryan Lindgren’s upper-body injury that sidelined him in the second game of the season in Columbus.
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