Artemi Panarin’s playoff redemption continues with Rangers’ game-winner
NY Post
Rod Brind’Amour has not noticed much of a change in Artemi Panarin’s game over the past couple years and in broad strokes, the Carolina coach is correct.
Panarin was a superstar then, is a superstar now and has not overhauled the way he plays.
But over seven games against the Hurricanes in the 2022 playoffs coming off a 96-point season, Panarin was mostly quiet on the ice, ruminated publicly on doing “stupid s–t at the blue line” and finished the series with a mere goal and three assists.
Sunday, coming off a 120-point season, Panarin kept on doing what he did in the Rangers’ first-round sweep of the Capitals, which is to say scoring game-winning goals and impacting play throughout the night in a 4-3 victory for the Blueshirts at the Garden.
So maybe there is something a little different from when these teams last met in the playoffs.
For example, Panarin might have passed off the third-period chance he scored Sunday, when he came in off the rush and saw Vincent Trocheck to his right.
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