What took place at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday night was suffocation with a beating thrown in as the Rangers were simply unable to get any offense going or match the physicality of the Panthers
What should worry the Rangers after Wednesday night is not just the way they struggled to break down the Panthers’ defense and forecheck all night long.
What should worry them just as much is that Florida coach Paul Maurice did not feel like his team forechecked particularly well on a night when the Rangers got just 23 shots on Sergei Bobrovsky’s net and at one point went 14:23 without one in a 3-0 loss.
“That’s kinda the way we play,” Maurice said. “I thought we were just OK with it, to be honest with you.
“We gave up two breakaways, that’s a neutral-zone problem, cause there’s a guy alone skating with the puck straight through it. So we gotta fix that. I will tell you this: all of these games are so close.
