One after the other at MSG Coaching Middle on Monday, the Rangers who had been on the middle of the previous two seasons tried to clarify what occurred from the primary to the second that led to the dismissal of their head coach and affiliate coach.
They tried to establish what was guilty earlier than dispersing for a playoff-less summer time.
“In my mind, something broke during the season, and [went] the other way,” Rangers goalie Igor Shesterkin stated. “We couldn’t handle it. It was our job to try to find a way to get back.”
The star Russian netminder, who the group dedicated to for the subsequent eight years at $92 million, couldn’t say precisely what broke.
Perhaps they misplaced some luck, he stated, or weren’t taking part in with as a lot confidence as they did final season.
Shesterkin famous that even when the Blueshirts fell behind by three final season, they knew they may come again.
He stated he didn’t really feel that this season.
Capping the season along with his sixth shutout in a 4-0 win over the Lightning, Shesterkin has 21 over the course of his profession and is tied with Lorne Chabot for eighth place on the franchise’s all-time listing.
The 29-year-old completed with a 27-29-5 report with a career-high goals-against common of two.89 and a career-low save proportion of .905.
“I look at this team on paper and it’d be crazy not to think that [this team should be in the playoffs], especially starting with the goalie,” defenseman Calvin de Haan stated of Shesterkin. “He’s in all probability the very best participant on the workforce. F–ok, he’s good. I feel we pissed away good goaltending [this season], which isn’t good.
“That’s the most important position and if that starts going to the wayside, it’s not good.”
