Filed under: Rangers, Eastern, Trade Deadline
The Rangers have played solid hockey most of the season, at least enough to stay in the Eastern Conference playoff picture. However, February has been unkind to them so far. They're 2-5-1 in the month so far and have slipped to 7th in the conference standings, only two points ahead of eighth-place Carolina. Defensively, the Rangers have been solid thanks to two very strong goaltenders in Henrik Lundqvist and backup Martin Biron. Lundqvist has seven shutouts on the year and the duo has combined for a stellar .922 save percentage. There's a young, yet talented defense in front of them, leaving the biggest need for improvement up front on offense. Going into Sunday's game against Philadelphia, the Rangers had six players with 10 goals or more but none of those players had yet to reach 20. To add to that, off-season acquisition Alex Frolov has been a bust and oft-injured star Marian Gaborik has missed 14 games to injury.
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