A more formidable Rangers lineup cruised to a 4-2 preseason win over an Islanders team that was split between NHLers and prospects at the Garden.
Preseason is for everything but agonizing over the wins and losses, but the Rangers are a team that want and need to feel good about itself going into the games that really count beginning on Oct. 12.
“I think it’s just a building process,” head coach Peter Laviolette said after the win. “Right now, we’re learning. There were still things out there through the neutral zone that we’ll go back [Wednesday] and we’ll tighten up and continue to teach and continue to work on in practice. I thought there was a lot of good things.
That led to a disappointing 11-10-5 record through the first game in December and prompted captain Jacob Trouba to take action with his now-famous helmet toss that turned the Rangers’ whole season around. Laviolette rolled some line combinations that could be seen in some variation during the regular season, as well as another that was designed to give a young player an opportunity to showcase himself.
Jonny Brodzinski centered Kreider and Wheeler in his second game of the preseason, presumably in place of Mika Zibanejad, whom the Rangers are being cautious with after he sustained a minor upper-body injury on Sunday.
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