The New York Rangers have an issue with their special teams to solve if they hope to make the playoffs. Their power-play is one of the worst in the NHL, ranked 26th in the league.
The New York Rangers' power-play percentage is 18.0% according to ESPN. Ranked 26th in the NHL, it's no surprise that the team has had trouble scoring on the man-advantage.
Peter Laviolette's Rangers have only scored one goal in the last twelve games for the team.
With all of the statistics mentioned above, it seems like a five-alarm fire for GM Chris Drury and his collection of stat nerds, that is, if he had hired any in the front office.
We're not sure he's equipped with other analysts like other front offices in the league, and if not, the eye-test simply isn't doing it for Laviolette, whose special teams are in essence wasting their opportunities.
While we can joke about how bad this is for Sam Rosen, who has only gotten to call a power-play goal in the last twelve games.
The Rangers haven't had this bad luck since 2017, when they experienced the same goal drought in that time frame.
Though if you look at the line combinations on DailyFaceOff you can see how Laviolette's stuck with the status quo instead of promoting younger players on the 1st power-play unit.
Chris Kreider remains on the 1st unit despite his lack of recent production.
If we go back to the last ten, we can find only JT Miller, Alexis Lafreniere, Mika Zibanejad, and Artemi Panarin have scored one point-play point. Lafreniere has two.
Either GM Chris Drury or Peter Laviolette will have to go back to the drawing board and find new blood to insert into special teams.
Or Laviolette will have to work his genius in order to give the Rangers the best chance to win, something he hasn't been able to do lately.
