Kaapo Kakko, Vitali Kravtsov victims of Rangers’ chemistry experiment
NY Post
All these months later and — for better or worse — the Rangers are still attempting to find a Jesper Fast facsimile to play the right side with Artemi Panarin and Ryan Strome.
That is among the reasons, and perhaps the primary one, that David Quinn is shuffling line combinations in advance of Tuesday’s match at the Garden against the Penguins. Colin Blackwell will move up from the fourth line onto the Strome-Panarin unit. Kaapo Kakko, who’d played reasonably well in that spot for the last six games, will step down and rejoin Alexis Lafreniere and Filip Chytil on the third line. Consequently, Vitali Kravtsov will skate on the fourth line after playing an impressive 10:45 with Chytil and Lafreniere in his NHL debut in Saturday’s 3-2 shootout defeat in Buffalo.
Suddenly, someone had hit a rewind button and everyone had been transported back seven months. It was early spring instead of late fall, it was broiling hot outside the arena walls and not freezing cold. Everyone was back at TD Garden. There were 19,156 frenzied fans on their feet begging for blood, poised for the kill.
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