This disappearing, non-scoring Rick Nash isn’t good enough

Rangers leading scorer Rick Nash tries to control the puck against the Lightning's Brenden Morrow during the Game 2 loss. TAMPA — So here we are again, the Rangers in the conference finals with a legitimate shot at winning the Stanley Cup despite being unable to score, and unable to score in the playoffs largely because their leading scorer can’t and doesn’t.

Following Monday’s Game 2 slop-fest of a 6-2 defeat to the talented Lightning in which his team committed a succession of brain-dead penalties in concert with repeated turnovers and blunders in critical portions of the ice, Blueshirts coach Alain Vigneault called out his “top players,” even if not by name.

And though there were at least…