Mailbag: Secondary scoring, Calgary rumors, Islanders/Rangers comparison

An interesting three questions for the mailbag this week. As always, use the widget on the right to send questions in to be answered.

Gerard asks: What is it with the Rangers and their lack of secondary scoring? Outside of Kreider, Hayes, Zibanejad, and Zuccarello, no one else seems to be producing.

Let’s start with the obvious: The Rangers are not a good team, so this shouldn’t be surprising. That said, you’d think they would get more out of Pavel Buchnevich, Filip Chytil, and Vlad Namestnikov.

Chytil has a line of 10-9-19 in 54 games this year, and has shown flashes of brilliance. He’s still adjusting and learning the NHL game. He was never going to put up elite numbers his first year.…