Filip Chytil couldn’t get off the bench the final 10:46 of Sunday’s game against the Sabres even with the Rangers down a center following Brett Howden’s exit late in the second, just as No. 72 didn’t play the final 14:05 of the third period (plus overtime) in Anaheim on Thursday, just as he didn’t get a turn the final 11:03 of regulation (plus OT) in San Jose two nights before that and the final 10:09 in LA two days before that.
So where is the 19-year-old, whose time has been steadily dwindling, going to get ice now that Lias Andersson has joined the band?