“With someone real new like Niko, we’re both trying to figure out each other’s games a little bit, where each other goes on the ice. “Obviously you play hundreds of games with a guy and you get a little comfortable with tendencies and stuff like that,” Fox said Tuesday morning. He had another adventure Tuesday alongside Mikkola, who loves to roam around all three zones but isn’t the old reliable that Ryan Lindgren is for Fox - Lindgren missed his eighth straight game with an upper-body injury Tuesday and this was the fifth of those eight the Rangers allowed at least three goals. “Sometimes we lose forwards in the slot, but I think we’re always playing not bad,” Shesterkin said. Trocheck had two assists, but that line was on for two Caps goals, including one in the first when Trocheck dove to the corner as the low forward and Kreider didn’t cover for him, leaving Nicolas Aube-Kubel alone for a wrist shot by Igor Shesterkin. “I’m really watching just to see what the center does with those guys,” Trocheck said. Trocheck said last week he’s big on watching video to learn his linemates’ tendencies - he’s even gone so far as to watch video of Kane’s and Panarin’s shifts from six years ago with the Blackhawks, when the two thrived between former Ranger Artem Anisimov. Kane has bounced around a bit and had an up-and-down night with Vincent Trocheck and Chris Kreider. Tarasenko and Zibanejad have been together for the vast majority of Tarasenko’s time with the Rangers, 153:06 of even-strength time according to Natural Stat Trick - that’s more in 16 Ranger games than Tarasenko had with all but two Blues forwards in 38 games with St.
Tarasenko to Zibanejad on the one-timer 😮💨 /WXixcrrWk3 Mika Zibanejad made one of those reads with Tarasenko on the Rangers’ opening goal, a nifty give-and-go that was like a basketball pick-and-pop play. You still play your game, but you make reads and learn other people’s approach to the game.” “So it’s kind of figuring out that game, adjusting. It’s kind of the same thing switching D partners - (Adam) Fox does different things than I do. Even when you’re not on the ice, you watch them play with other guys, their tendencies. You’ve got to work your way through that and you learn.
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Learning how to play with Bread is just different than learning how to play with other players. It’s not necessarily a bad thing, but I think it takes a little more time to get acclimated. “Kaner will turn up with the puck, Bread ( Artemi Panarin) will turn up with the puck when he gets in the O-zone.
“It’s more reads,” Trouba said after the win. And it’s been a team that’s 9-5-2 with Tarasenko and Niko Mikkola and 3-2-1 with Kane, who scored his first at the Garden as a Ranger and helped set up Jacob Trouba’s 4-1 goal in the second. Vladimir Tarasenko would have been a big-enough add on his own, but then Drury went out and turned his roster and salary-cap situation a hundred different ways to make Patrick Kane fit. These are not role players Drury acquired this time around. Instead, this win needed a Jimmy Vesey empty-netter to seal it after the Caps pulled within a goal in the third. But things have been different, rockier even Tuesday’s 5-3 win over the Alex Ovechkin-less Capitals at the Garden wasn’t as smooth as you’d like to see, especially after a dominating first 25 minutes in which the Rangers looked like the sum of their very good parts and grabbed a 4-1 lead. Motte is even back for a second go-round.
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