TEAM NOTES<\/p>\n
DYL-AN!<\/p>\n
Dylan Garand has earned a point in five of his six starts this season (4-1-1) and in eight of his nine career NHL starts (6-1-2).\u00a0Among all goaltenders with at least five starts this season, he ranks fourth in save percentage (.929) and\u00a0ranks fifth in goals against average (1.85). His four wins this season are tied for ninth in the league.<\/p>\n
On Oct. 13, he matched Igor Shesterkin (5-0-1) and Cam Talbot (5-0-1) for the fewest starts (6) by a goaltender to five\u00a0career wins with the Rangers. On Oct. 11, he became the eighth rookie netminder in team history to record wins in\u00a0each of his first two starts of the season and the third in 40 years to do so (last was Igor Shesterkin – 2GS in 2019-20).<\/p>\n
LAFF LIGHTS UP<\/p>\n
Alexis Lafreni\u00e8re has tallied at least one point in seven of his last eight games (7G-6A). He is tied for seventh in the\u00a0league with seven goals this season, and leads the Rangers in goals and points (13). From Oct. 4 through Oct. 15, he\u00a0recorded a six-game point streak (7G-4A), tied for the longest such streak of his career.<\/p>\n
He has notched four multi-point games this season, the most on the Blueshirts and tied for the 11th-most in the NHL.\u00a0Since the 2023-24 season, his 43 multi-point games rank fifth among all Rangers skaters.<\/p>\n
FANTASTIC MR. FOX<\/p>\n
Adam Fox has notched 10 points (10A) through his first 11 games of the season. On Oct. 19, he became the fourth\u00a0Rangers defenseman to reach 10 assists in fewer than 12 games multiple times (11 GP, 2021-22). Among all NHL\u00a0blueliners this season, he is tied for third in assists and ranks seventh in points. He leads the Rangers in assists and\u00a0ranks second in points.<\/p>\n
Among all NHL defensemen since 2019-20, his 77 multi-assist games rank third. In that same span, his 109 multi-point games also rank third among all NHL blueliners.<\/p>\n
Fox ranks second all-time in multi-assist games (77) among New York defensemen and ranks ninth among all\u00a0Rangers skaters in franchise history. He is tied with Camille Henry and Adam Graves for the 14th-most multi-point\u00a0games (109) in franchise history.<\/p>\n
MIKA MAGIC<\/p>\n
Mika Zibanejad has recorded nine points (2G-7A) through his first 11 games of the season. He ranks second on New\u00a0York with seven assists and third in points. He currently sits two points away from tying Walt Tkaczuk for the sixth-most points among all Rangers in franchise history (678).<\/p>\n
Among all NHL skaters to have taken at least 175 faceoffs this season, Zibanejad ranks fifth with a 55.4 faceoff win\u00a0percentage. His 97 faceoff wins this season rank 10th in the NHL.<\/p>\n
MILLER TIME<\/p>\n
J.T. Miller has recorded at least one point in six of his last eight games (2G-5A). He is tied for fourth on the Rangers\u00a0in both assists (5) and points (7).<\/p>\n
His 102 faceoff wins this season are tied for sixth in the league. Among all NHL skaters to have taken at least 175\u00a0faceoffs this season, Miller is tied for third with a 57.3 faceoff win percentage. Since the 2024-25 season, his 59.5\u00a0faceoff win percentage ranks third among all skaters with at least 1,000 faceoffs taken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEAM NOTES DYL-AN! Dylan Garand has earned a point in five of his six starts this season (4-1-1)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-379642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}