The New York Rangers have not been healthy since the trade deadline. First they lost Pavel Buchnevich for a pair of games, two games that the Rangers won despite being outplayed. Then when they got Buchnevich back, they lost Chris Kreider. The team hasn’t been the same since losing either.
The two wins overshadow the way the Rangers played following the Buchnevich injury, but the Kreider injury is hard to ignore. The Rangers have won just once since that injury, with four losses. Three of those losses were flat out ugly.
One injury shouldn’t derail an entire team, but it did for the Rangers.