In a low season, Rangers loss in Anaheim somehow sunk: 3 takeaways

The new rangers have done things this season that make you scratch your head. They played games that make you surprise if someone here knows what he is doing. The fact that they are still in the midst of the-cena injugation to one of those children’s races during the seventh trait of a baseball game of the minor League, not any type of race in which things move quickly-it has much more to do with the ineptitude of the teams that surrounded them with anything well the rangers.

Yet, despite so many bass this season, somehow the bar was lowered on Friday in Anaheim Ducks. They had an advantage of 4-2 in the third period less than six minutes from the end, and a late game transformed into a draw. So, a rapid and painful extraordinary session left the Rangers with 1 point instead of 2. The loss of 5-4 left them still outside the first eight in the East when they were a few minutes to be kept the last Jolly point, even if only for one night.

He leaves you even more if this team, which has already seen many changes this season, has a desperate need for multiple surgical interventions. Maybe the rangers are tired. Maybe I’m tired. Maybe they are angry with everything that happened. Perhaps they, like many of you out there they look and comment, only want that this ends as quickly as possible.

So the Rangers head to San Jose on Saturday for the umpteenth possibility of obtaining an advantage on the other teams that try to drag themselves through the goal of the playoffs or vomit along their fronts of the shirt in front of an audience late at night. Who knows what will happen?

Some takeaways of another ignominious moment in a season full of them:

The game of power is a disaster

And that statement arrives in a night when the Rangers scored a Power-play goal, just the second in the last 35 possibilities. Mika Zibanejad launched only one timer patented by an Adam Fox feed to do it 4-2 at 4:35 on the third. Surprisingly, the rangers were 1 out of 3 after that goal; They finished 1 out of 7, including one five out of three of 96 seconds that produced zero shots on goal.

Foxyfeed + Mika burys him. pic.twitter.com/jbmz1r0has

– New York Rangers (@nyrangers) March 29, 2025

Oh, and the Ducks scored a short goal of short in the first period, so that Zibanejad’s Power-play goal has just drew things for the power game of the Rangers during the night.

Peter Laviolette and Michael Paca have activated several players on the power-play units and ended up behind where they started the season: with the Original Five Power-play on the upper group. Nobody has been able to repair this mess, which has the rangers at 17.9 percent for the season. They were a power game of 26.4 percent last season with the same crew.

Being unable to score is one thing; He equipped a seventh game of power with 3:54 to go while he kept an advantage of a goal thanks to Radko Gudas who decided to see if he could perform the Ping of the Brennan Othmann head from the crossbar, the rangers were unable to score a clincher but also to make the situation with the second unit outside.

Laviolette had Will Borgen with K’Andre Miller instead of a fourth striker, but the three strikers on the ice-jt Miller, Alexis Lafrenière and Will Cuyle-Mentre the penalty of the Ducks had no idea that it was again five out of five or simply could not overturn after JT Miller and sent the Ducks to four Pioli.

Zellweger Olen had a lot of time while the trailer to take one by Igor Sherkin, and the score was tied with 1:45 remaining.

Three-three is a disaster

The 2023-24 rangers were 8-1 in extraordinary. They are 2-7 this season and the loss of Friday has been a kind of Immaculate OT grill: Mason McTavish beat Vincent Trocheck on the comparison of the extraordinary, three ducks under the age of 23 have moved the disc for 59 seconds and Mctavish exploited the winner. Trocheck, Fox and Artemi Panarin, three large rangers, have never touched the disc.

Defensive-Forecketing structure, neutral zone systems, killing of penalties-is all ethical of work. You have to want it and you want to do it well. Whether it’s sacrificed your body to block a shot or get a body on someone, trace and find the right opponent’s player to be covered, oscillate in the defensive area to make sure that the disc turns off or chips a disc from the wall to obtain a change, all that stuff is discipline. It is boring. It’s a job.

So we can all understand why players, even professionals, do not pay every attention to detail when the team is disconnected as the rangers have been. You don’t accept it, in any way, but you understand. The work is work; It would be called something else if it was easy.

But the game of power, three out of three extraordinary ones are moments to shine, to bring out the ability and creativity. The high -end rangers that can play on these units should want to be successful for any number of reasons, from something superficial such as padding statistics to something significant such as winning games that still count.

Yet this team is no longer succeeds. The fog of losses in December was so thick that you could not notice individual aspects of the team’s match because it was all horrible. Now, when there are parts of work and points that count, the game of power and the extraordinary are evident.

Everything is a disaster

The image that the Rangers project around the world – to their fans, the only people who really count in sport – is ugly. Jacob Trouba, who left the game on Friday after crashing hard on the tables in the third period, expressed relief to disappear from the rangers to AtleticoEric Stephens at the beginning of this week. Fans have every right to criticize Trouba’s On-Tee match, but his stubbornness of not getting along with Chris Drury’s summer plan to redo the rangers with force does not make the former captain the villain.

All subsequent moves could be justified in the name of the change of the team game, but surely something big is missing, as highlighted by the loss of Friday. I heard from the fans who wondered why Trocheck was so short with the MSG Network Studio crew at the interval of the Game of Rangers at the Winnipeg Jets two weeks ago. I heard from the fans who wondered why Sam Rosen’s prayer ceremony before the game last Saturday was so short.

I have not received answers on any of these things, but they are certainly noticed by more than all of you. There are many mediocre teams that do not emit bad vibrations like this.

And somehow, they reached a new low Friday.

(Photo of Mason McTavish mark beyond Igor Sherkin in extraordinary: Nicole Vasquez / Nhli via Getty Images)