Rangers’ woeful offense blanked again: ‘Gotta fix everything’
NY Post
Two games against the Islanders this season have resulted in nothing but blanks fired by the Rangers.
Ilya Sorokin shut them out in November at the Garden, and with him injured this time around, veteran backup David Rittich did the honors with 27 saves to send the Rangers to a 2-0 loss Saturday night at UBS Arena.
It marked the eighth shutout suffered by the Rangers already over their middling first 40 games (19-17-4), putting them halfway to the NHL record of 16 by the 2006-07 Blue Jackets.
“It feels like everything,” Artemi Panarin said when asked what was not working offensively, particularly on the power play, which finished 0-for-3. “We gotta score one at least, especially with a couple of power plays late in the game.
“I feel like we’ve recovered pretty well after that kind of games, but when we go on the ice, we’re not thinking, ‘Oh, we have eight games already without a goal.’ But it’s frustrating. We’re doing that over and over this year. I don’t know, we gotta fix everything.”
Unlike their 5-0 pasting by Sorokin and the Islanders on Nov. 8 at the Garden, the Rangers had their chances in this one.
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