Midterm grades: Goaltending, front office, and coaching

After reviewing the defense and the bottom-six forwards, it’s time to move on to the trio of goaltending, front office, and coaching. We pack these three together because there’s only two goalies and one GM to grade, so bunching them with the coaching staff as a whole seems to work. There’s no real parameters here, like we had with the bottom-six forwards. So let’s jump right into it.

Henrik Lundqvist (15-12-7, 3.01 GAA, .908 SV%)

At first glance, Lundqvist’s numbers are pedestrian. And let’s face it, they are, at least at first glance. Lundqvist is no longer able to keep the Rangers in games and steal games for them as often as he used to. Part of me knows it may have to do with his age, but…