Jack Roslovic’s dropoff means Rangers’ shuffling still unfinished
NY Post
Given the opportunity by a generous journalist to frame Sunday’s healthy scratch for Jack Roslovic 15 games into his Rangers career as, “Just a rotation thing?” head coach Peter Laviolette seized the moment by affirming it as, “just a rotation thing.”
Which represents a funny way to say, “a benching.”
It is not Laviolette’s way to call out players in public. There may not have been a single time this first season behind the New York bench when the coach has pointed a finger — or directed a pointed message — at one of his players.
He sure wasn’t about to start with Roslovic, who went from a stabilizing influence on the right with Chris Kreider and Mika Zibanejad to a perceived liability and had taken a seat through large swatches of Friday’s 4-3 victory in Detroit before watching this 5-2 Garden victory over the Habs in street clothes.
Laviolette has talked about how having 13 healthy forwards on the roster has tasked him with making a personnel call every game. The coach has said that matchups might be a part of the equation in attempting to define the club’s most formidable lineup entering the first game of the first round of the playoffs.
But that was generally inferred as, ultimately, the decision distilled to whether to dress Matt Rempe or to go with Jonny Brodzinski as the 12th forward. Only the most literal-minded deduced Laviolette truly thought that 22-year-old Will Cuylle needed a rest a month before the playoffs when he came out of the lineup as a healthy scratch against the Panthers on March 23.
Karl-Anthony Towns has not been shy about letting it be known that he believes he is sacrificing for the team.
The first few waves of free agency have come and gone. It feels like a good time to check in on what the Jets have done and what still needs to be done.
TORONTO — To understand what Tuesday was like for Matthew Schaefer, don’t start with the scene at his stall after morning skate, with Toronto media packed around him, but 20 minutes later in a corner of Scotiabank Arena.
Lamar Odom pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to the criminal charges he was hit with following his January run-in with cops in Nevada.
With the World Baseball Classic final tied in the top of the ninth inning Tuesday, Team USA manager Mark DeRosa did not bring in one of the game’s best relief pitchers and it ultimately cost them the game.
The whirlwind of the first few days of NFL free agency came and went last week, and the Giants played their part in adding to the player movement frenzy.
The playoffs are exactly a month away, and it’s a good time to send a reminder that rotations will be tightened.
The whirlwind of the first few days of NFL free agency came and went last week, and the Giants played their part in adding to the player movement frenzy.
TORONTO — To understand what Tuesday was like for Matthew Schaefer, don’t start with the scene at his stall after morning skate, with Toronto media packed around him, but 20 minutes later in a corner of Scotiabank Arena.
TAMPA — You can make it about just one inning. Or that it still will only be March 18. Or about the miles left to go.
John Harbaugh could have looked at two offensive linemen the Giants selected in the 2022 draft, reviewed their performance on the field the past four years, said “No thanks,’’ and no one would have given him a hard time about it.
The playoffs are exactly a month away, and it’s a good time to send a reminder that rotations will be tightened.