The chaos that has quickly engulfed the Rangers made Sunday’s 5-2 win over the Kings feel like an afterthought.
As encouraging as it was to see the Rangers score early and often, while limiting Los Angeles to just two goals,and a Mika Zibanejad injury scare not only overshadowed the final score, but it complicated the week leading up to Friday’s trade deadline, when Patrick Kane is expected to officially become a Ranger.
Ryan Lindgren was already sidelined with a shoulder injury he sustained on a controversial hit from the Capitals’ T.J. Oshie on Saturday, which prompted Ben Harpur to suit up on the blue line. But the Rangers had no intentions of playing Braden Schneider or Ryan Carpenter, who was recalled in accordance with the collective bargaining agreement rule that requires teams to dress 18 skaters if they’re cap compliant.
Limited to just five defensemen and 11 forwards right off the bat, the Rangers then lost Miller when he was ejected for spitting in the Kings’ Drew Doughty’s face in the first period, which left the home team with just four blueliners for a majority of the game. There was a split second when it looked as though the Rangers would have to play with just 10 forwards after Zibanejad took a hard shot from Doughty off his right ankle just before the Kings made it a 3-1 game on the power play in the second period. Zibanejad ultimately came back out and played the remainder of the game, but the sheer possibility of losing their No. 1 center shows just how delicate the Rangers situation is.
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