Befuddling

Ryan Dixon at The Hockey News tries to explain what's going on in Rangerland including this quote from New York Post's Larry Brooks...

"One of the most confounding NHL clubs in memory, the New York Rangers, a) completed the first half of their season with a negative goal-differential of minus-four, excluding shootouts; b) were 26th in the NHL with a power play operating at 14.5 percent; c) were in the league’s bottom five in goals-per-game at 2.54 per; d) were on pace to shatter the NHL record of 22 shorthanded goals against, having allowed 12; and e) saw their prize free agent signings of the previous two summers—Wade Redden, Scott Gomez and Chris Drury - all suffer through dismal opening three months. And yet, somehow, the Rangers were 24-14-3 and locked in an intense battle for first place in the Atlantic. Rarely has there been a better example of a whole being greater than the sum of its parts."

...Ryan, give up trying to figure out this team. We Ranger fans have.