{"id":298245,"date":"2025-11-18T02:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T02:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/298245\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T02:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T02:39:10","slug":"rangers-hit-road-with-streaky-power-play-trying-to-make-up-for-home-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/298245\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers hit road with streaky power play trying to make up for home woes"},"content":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s no place like road.<\/p>\n

Coming off their latest uninspired effort at home, the Rangers (10-8-2) \u2014 who have won just one of nine games this season at Madison Square Garden \u2014 return to the cozy confines of hotel rooms and charter flights, carrying a six-game road win streak into a three-game western swing, beginning Tuesday in Las Vegas (8-4-6), then following with visits to Colorado (13-1-5) and Utah (10-7-1).<\/p>\n

On paper, the slate gives off the appearance of one of the season\u2019s tougher weeks, but logic isn\u2019t welcome in any locker room occupied by the Rangers, who sport the league\u2019s worst mark at home and the league\u2019s best record on the road (9-1-1).<\/p>\n

\u201cWe gotta keep doing our thing on the road,\u201d defenseman Adam Fox said after Sunday\u2019s 2-1 home loss to the Red Wings<\/a>. \u201c[It\u2019s a] big trip, three really good teams. You want to stop losses at one and get back to winning.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"MikaMika Zibanejad controls the puck while on the power play during the Rangers\u2019 Nov. 7 game against the Red Wings. NHLI via Getty Images<\/p>\n

The team can be confident in the support between the pipes, with the elite tandem of former Vezina (Igor Shesterkin) and Conn Smythe (Jonathan Quick) winners combining to give the Rangers the league\u2019s second-best GAA (2.45), entering Monday.<\/p>\n

Though the offense has been abysmal at the Garden, averaging 1.4 goals per game, it has found rhythm almost anywhere else, scoring 3.45 goals per game on the road, partly fueled by the recent awakening of the Rangers power play.<\/p>\n

Since going 0-for-12 with the man advantage in a five-game stretch, the Rangers have scored at least one power-play goal in five of their past six games, including the past four, in which they converted 4-of-9 opportunities.<\/p>\n

\"NewArtemi Panarin tries to control the puck during the Rangers\u2019 Nov. 12 game against the Lightning. AP<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s funny, we were talking about that our power play doesn\u2019t look as good as it did when we weren\u2019t scoring and here we are,\u201d said Rangers assistant David Quinn who served as co-head coach in Mike Sullivan\u2019s absence <\/a>on Sunday. \u201cOne of things, obviously, we\u2019ve been more opportunistic. We were dead last in the league. We were talking amongst ourselves \u2014 not only from a coaching standpoint but talking with the players \u2014 and there was a high level of frustration from the players\u2019 standpoint because they felt like we were doing a lot of good things. To the eye test, our power play looked good, but we just weren\u2019t scoring goals.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow we\u2019re getting goals \u2014 I\u2019m not saying we don\u2019t look good at times \u2014 but we haven\u2019t been as consistent on it. When we create chances and when we score, there\u2019s a pace and a tempo to our game. We have a little bit of a 5-on-5 mentality, and when we\u2019ve been generating offense and scoring goals on the power play, that\u2019s what our approach has been. We\u2019re taking advantage of the chances we\u2019re getting and that\u2019s the biggest thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Quinn, the former Rangers head coach (2018-21), and assistant coach Joe Sacco, could split the lead duties again in Las Vegas. <\/p>\n

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Sullivan was a late scratch on Sunday due to a family matter and it is unclear when he will rejoin the team.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s different,\u201d Fox said of the dynamic without Sullivan. \u201cI don\u2019t think we\u2019re gonna use that as an excuse. We\u2019re gonna hope for the best with him. It\u2019s an excuse that we could use, but obviously it doesn\u2019t help when you\u2019re missing your head coach.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s no place like road. Coming off their latest uninspired effort at home, the Rangers (10-8-2) \u2014 who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[35717,4823,385,99],"class_list":["post-298245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-adam-fox","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}