Report Card: 20 Games
Twenty games into the 2021-22 season, and the Rangers have started to find their game, improving their overall play as Igor Shesterkin and Adam Fox continue to lead the way. The loss of Sammy Blais to an injury has lead to more ice time for the likes of Julien Gauthier and Dryden Hunt, and both players have shown some promising improvements.
While most of it has been good, there’s still some room for improvement in a couple of areas, particularly on defense as well as from Alexandar Georgiev, both of which struggled for parts of the last ten games. So let us take a look at how the line-up fared over the past ten games.
It’s Going To Be A Busy December
Well it appears I was too pessimistic about the Rangers in November, with the team posting a 7-2-2 record against a prediction of 5-5-3 – two games were postponed, though against Ottawa and an undermanned Islanders, the Rangers would have been favorites in each of those. Clearly the Rangers did well, including picking up wins over Florida and Boston, both of which were predicted as losses.
November did start out with 13 games scheduled, but with COVID striking two of their opponents, the Rangers got a bit of a break and ended the month a couple of games short. There is always the chance it happens again in December, but as it stands now they’ll play 14 games in 31 days, though that includes a stretch of 10 days around the holiday break, where they’ll play just one game.