Losing Rozsival Creates Huge Void For Rangers

For many Rangers fans, especially coming into the season the thought of Michal Rozsival missing from the lineup was not necessarily a bad thing. In fact for some it was advocated as the next move to make now that Wade Redden had finally been banished to Hartford. I never bought into that theory and with his play so far this season Rozsival has proven not only to be a valuable asset to this team, but one that is critical to the defense. It is true that the Rangers have a lot of talented defensive prospects in the system along with some young defenders at the NHL level but other than Staal and Girardi, Rozsival is really the only one who is truly capable of top 4 minutes, especially in defensive situations. Before I go any further I want to kill this ridiculous conspiracy theory I saw in multiple places yesterday equating the timing of the injury announcement to Rozsival “being responsible” for the game winning goal against by the Capitals. First, as I said yesterday while he is ...