The Rangers Have Structure and It’s Showing | Up in the Blue Seats

The Rangers Have Structure and It’s Showing | Up in the Blue Seats

These games though, Brian, I mean, aside from the offense and the season opener, the last two, the Rangers really haven’t looked that bad, though. No, no, they haven’t. Uh, the first season opener was a dud. Yeah. So, is what it is. There’s a lot of Yeah, we we’ll put that on the back burner for a sec. Listen, this is a good hockey team. I’m gonna say it now. This is this is the opposite of what we saw last year with their 12 and four start. A little bit of smoke in mirrors. There were some holes. They got some timely goals. They got some good decent enough goalending anyway last year. This year everything and this is the chances that they got particularly last night against Edmonton against a very good team, a a perennial cup contender in Edmonton. Correct. the two of the best players in the world, the chances they got were based on or was from execution of their structure. They played a patient game and then when they had the puck, they were direct. I thought everyone contributed. I thought, you know, you want to get a goal every three or four games from your fourth line. That line could have had three or four and alone could have had three or four. He had he had a numerous amount of chances. The carrick had a post. He had another grade A in the first period and it all was off of their structure. So that’s what I think will translate. They have to stay the course. You cannot cheat the game for offense because then it’ll look like it looked last year. So I really like I mean we’ll get into it, but I re I really like you know what their top guys are doing to get chances. There are some guys that need a little kick in the pants. I think if that happens, this is a scary team in a weak honestly a weak division. So even because the Washington game, you know, Washington just played a Tampa team where, you know, they kind of pushed back and got a big win against Tampa. There’s Washington’s a good team. People kind of overlook them every year. They smoke a mirror. No, they’re they’re a good team. They got enough. Yeah, they got goalie in that game. And then you Stuart Skinner was which one’s a good one? Dr. Jackekal, right? He was Dr. Jack last night. Which one? You know, he does that feast or famine act and it was feasting for for Edmonton last night with Steuart Skinner. Yeah. And they limited Edmonton as a whole to three high danger chances. I think defensively this is it’s night and day from last season. There is a total buyin on the defensive system 100%. And it is it I mean when you think about it, what have they given up? Six goals in total. Four have come with an actual goalie in net. Yeah. You know, so yeah, like that alone is very encouraging from a defensive standpoint, but I wrote about this for my column after the Edmonton game. For a team that has historically had such strong starts in the first year under a new coach, I don’t think that growing pains at the beginning of this season could be the worst thing in the world. Because I believe Mike Sullivan is here to build something that’s going to last, a foundation that they can actually build upon that is going to stay in place and not going to be flimsy and movable. And that’s what the Rangers wanted when they brought in Mike Sullivan. They don’t want to do this whole, you know, new coaching staff every two years. Who the hell does, you know, they ideally want to build something that’s going to go the distance, not just to the Stanley Cup final this June, but season after season after season, perennial contenders. That is the goal for everybody.

Mollie and Brian discuss how Mike Sullivan’s structure is already changing the way the Rangers play. From limiting high-danger chances against Edmonton to generating offense through patience and execution, the Rangers are showing signs of a system that actually works.

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