Quoting: too_dern_bad
They have the same issues they had last year except Igor isn't stealing games for them anymore. If the coaching staff has no solutions for them from a strategic standpoint besides cracking the whip, shaking the jar, and poopooing their players to the press, I don't expect the results to be different. You can have the best soldiers in the world, but if your mission planning is shallow and not up to par, there is only so much you can do.
Thats funny because last year they had terrible advanced stats like xgf saying they were scoring way more than expected.
This season the rangers are a top 5 team in xgf, and are just giving up a ton of goals, but also not scoring anywhere near whats expected.
Both Kreider and Laf are in the top 5 of differencial between xgf and actual goals.
Mika and kreider are top 5 in xgf.
The effect is there offensively, just not the outcome.
Defensively Fox-lindgren is actually better this year than last.
Trouba - miller took a step back (prob because trouba is hurt)
Jones-Schneider have good games and bad.