NEW YORK -- Alain Vigneault stood before his disheartened New York Rangers players, who are on a 1-5-2 skid to start the 2017-18 season. Away from the frustrated fans and the critical questions from the media. Just a coach and his charges, trying to find a way to dig their fingernails into the walls and climb out of this hole.
"We have two choices here," he said, as relayed by goalie Henrik Lundqvist. "We either feel sorry for ourselves, or we go out and make the most of this situation."
There's a micro and a macro way of looking at that advice.