Rangers Not Offensive
So much for opening night fireworks right? The vaunted toughening of Rangers looked more like the same old same old as we watched the re-tooled line-up get manhandled by Alex Ovechkin and the Capitals. Well at least Tom Wilson didn’t get up to any mischief I guess.
Well at least they’re hitting more right? The Rangers are currently ranked sixth in the league, with an average 28.11 hits per sixty, trailing just the Senators, Stars, Golden Knights, the Flyers and oh yeah, the Islanders. Not that the league’s statistic for hits is all that consistent, or even useful for evaluating a team. The Rangers for instance were ranked 13th last year, with 22.79 hits per sixty, about 5 behind the league leading monsters of hitting – the Montreal Canadiens. So yeah, I wouldn’t invest too much time focusing on that one.