The list can go on and on when talking about what's went wrong with the New York Rangers so far this season, but when you look at everything as a collective whole, there's one aspect of their game that is missing that has stood out to me the most; their identity. This year's Rangers have been far from the Black and Blueshirts squad we saw exceed expectations in 2010-11, which wasn't supposed to be the plan going into the season despite the new influx of players that were brought it one way or another. They may only be 2-2-2, but this team has not played great hockey much this season. They need to turn things around and the best way to go about executing that is to regain their identity.
Yesterday in practice head coach John Tortorella had the team work on "a little bit of everything" in preparation for their match with the Winnipeg Jets tonight. That tells me that he has seen flaws in every area of his team's game, which he should, and that everythin...
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Brandon Dubinsky,
Artem Anisimov,
Ryan Callahan,
Erik Christensen,
Kris Newbury,
Marian Gaborik,
Brad Richards,
Henrik Lundqvist
TEAMS: New York Rangers, Winnipeg Jets, Edmonton Oilers
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