In the “way too early to generate any real conclusions” category, we have three games of lines and pairings to review. Again, it’s too early to come to conclusions, but we can at least look at what has worked, what hasn’t, and what needs more time for the Rangers line combos. Since the Rangers returned a good amount of last year’s team, we are able to use last year’s results to see if anything has changed.
The below is from Charting Hockey, using expected-goal rates from the first three games of the season. Again, small sample size.