Mika Zibanejad’s Rangers season continues to amaze – and mystify
NY Post
I have a confession to make. I don’t know what to make of Mika Zibanejad’s season. I am conflicted about the way I have covered him from afar and through a computer screen this year. I don’t know whether I have been fair to him or not.
When he insisted through the first month or two of an impossibly bad start that he was not, most definitely not, experiencing after-effects from having contracted COVID-19 just before the start of training camp, I chose to take him at his word. Of course there is a no-excuse clause in hockey. But I’d have hoped, and still do, that if he were struggling with post-virus symptoms, Zibanejad would have said so and not have worried that he’d have sounded as if he were searching for an alibi to explain away 3-8-11 production in the first 27 games in which he was worse than his stats.
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