Day: August 16, 2019

Okay, bear with me on this one, but what if the Rangers should decide to pair Artemi Panarin with Vladimir Namestnikov and Pavel Buchnevich to form one of the top two lines.  Yes, I’m really suggesting that Rangers’ take their premier off-season signing and putting him with a guy who had 11 goals and 31 points in 78 games last year.

This is of course the same guy who has never scored more than 48 points – coincidentally the total he put up in 2017-18 when he was traded to the New York Rangers – and has registered a somewhat modest 53 goals and 123 points in his 263 NHL games.