After getting thumped in Colorado by the Avalanche last night, the Blueshirts are back in action 24 hours later for yet another road tilt. Gerard Gallant’s squad is in Arizona to take on Clayton Keller, Andrew Ladd, and the rest of the Coyotes. While the Avalanche are one of the league’s best teams and losing on the road against them is nothing to be ashamed of, the Rangers can’t afford to drop a game against the Coyotes.
With a 5-20-2 record at the 33% mark of the season, the Coyotes are on pace to lose 66 games, a dubious feat that the league hasn’t seen since both the San Jose Sharks and Ottawa Senators lost 71 and 70 games respectively in their inaugural seasons during the 1992-1993 campaign.