{"id":376218,"date":"2025-12-29T17:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T17:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/376218\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T17:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T17:09:11","slug":"mike-sullivan-doesnt-think-rangers-scoring-woes-is-all-doom-and-gloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/376218\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Sullivan doesn’t think Rangers scoring woes is all “doom and gloom’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Artemi Panarin\u2019s frustrations boiled over Saturday night, saying the Rangers \u201cgotta fix everything\u201d<\/a> after they were blanked for the eighth time already in 40 games this season in a 2-0 loss to the Islanders<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mike Sullivan isn\u2019t happy with those numbers, either, but he stressed the importance Sunday of staying positive and trusting the team\u2019s talent entering Monday\u2019s visit to Carolina.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, I don\u2019t think\u2026 obviously, that\u2019s not a stat that any of us are proud of. We\u2019d like to score some goals,\u201d Sullivan said after practice in Tarrytown. \u201cBut having said that, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s doom and gloom around here because we didn\u2019t win a game [Saturday] night or we didn\u2019t score a goal.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know we have the capability of scoring goals, and we have. And so we\u2019ve got to build on the positive things that we\u2019re doing. We\u2019ve got to identify areas that we can improve and get better, to try to help in that capacity. And that\u2019s what we\u2019re trying to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"RangersRangers head coach Mike Sullivan reacts on the bench in the first period at Madison Square Garden in New York, New York, December 02, 2025. JASON SZENES FOR NY POST<\/p>\n

Panarin, a pending free agent, leads the team with 14 goals and 38 points, but the power play has struggled (5-for-37) without defenseman Adam Fox, who is close to returning after missing 13 games.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously [Panarin] has the ability to drive offense. He\u2019s a difference-maker. You can use the phrase game-breaker,\u201d said Sullivan, who coached Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin with the Penguins. \u00a0\u201cThere\u2019s a number of those guys in the league, but they\u2019re unique in that regard. And I think Bread is one of those guys.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019ve had a fair amount of experience in coaching those types over the years, and I think based on my experience, you can\u2019t coach those guys the same way. You\u2019ve got to give those guys a certain latitude to act on their instincts. And I certainly try to do that. The phrase I use with them all the time is just meet me halfway with respect to play away from the puck, positional play, assignments off of faceoffs, things of that nature. Offensively, we try to stay out of his way and allow him to trust his instincts and act on his instincts. I think that that\u2019s what makes Bread unique, and so we do our very best to stay out of the way in that regard .\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

J.T. Miller (upper-body injury) skated on his own before Sunday\u2019s practice, Sullivan said. Sam Carrick (illness) did not practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Artemi Panarin\u2019s frustrations boiled over Saturday night, saying the Rangers \u201cgotta fix everything\u201d after they were blanked for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[11559,4823,385,99],"class_list":["post-376218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-mike-sullivan-nhl","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376218","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=376218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}