The saving grace – if one can call goalkeeping that – is that Igor Shesterkin has found his game and Jonathan Quick remains a decent enough Robin to Comrade Batman. As for the club's best forward, Breadman Panarin has gone stale.

The decision to sit the longest tenured Ranger comes amid the club’s 4-12 skid and free fall in the standings to sixth in the Metropolitan Division and 22nd in the NHL.

Currently, we're in the middle of an NHL roster freeze. The New York Rangers are in the middle of a freeze themselves, but that one stops them from playing well