The hill the Rangers have to climb isn’t Mount Vancouver, but it’s extremely steep and formidable.
There’s every single chance that they won’t make it, and if you don’t understand that, your heart is beating the daylights out of your brain.
But if they’re going to have any chance at all of even sniffing the middle of the mountain, of not falling completely off, with just a tad over half a shortened season to go, they are going to need this:
Artemi Panarin. And the real Mika Zibanejad.
End of story. I mean, they’re going to need more than that, too. They’re going to need to get better goaltending than they’ve gotten — and they sure got enough of that from
