2. Power-play offensive zone time percentage<\/p>\n
The Rangers were second in offensive zone time percentage on the power play (61.7) last season. Defensemen Adam Fox<\/a> led the League in power-play offensive zone time percentage (67.3), Panarin ranked third (66.6), Zibanejad fourth (66.5), center Vincent Trocheck<\/a> fifth (66.4) and Chris Kreider<\/a>, who was traded to the Anaheim Ducks on June 12, sixth in that category (66.1).<\/p>\n After Kreider’s departure, the Rangers have multiple options to integrate on the first power play, ranging from breakout candidates Alexis Lafreniere<\/a> and Will Cuylle<\/a> to rookie Gabe Perreault<\/a>. Cuylle ranked highly among forwards in high-danger goals (14; 87th percentile) and high-danger shots on goal (60; 86th percentile) last season, making him a potential net-front option to turn to after Kreider thrived in that role for years. Lafreniere, the No. 1 pick in the 2020 NHL Draft, was also a high-danger goals standout (12; 81st percentile) last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2. Power-play offensive zone time percentage The Rangers were second in offensive zone time percentage on the power…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-79391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}