Other than Colorado the Rangers should win the rest of their remaining games. No reason not to get on a roll to close out the season.
Philly, Colorado, Arizona, Pittsburgh, NJ, Detroit, Montreal, Isles, Philly, Isles and Ottawa.
They aren’t sitting any of the top players until the standings become clearer. Games are too important now to just rest someone for the sake of it. There’s definitely a big difference between playing the Flyers, Wings or Caps then playing the Lightning.
Rangers final regular season game is 4/15 against Ottawa and the playoffs are starting 4/22. More than likely the top players aren’t playing the last game. Gives them a week to rest and get ready for playoffs.
Looks like the Caps are going to over take the Flyers. If so I much rather finish in first in the conference and play the Flyers than play either the Lightning or Caps. Resting players is great but having an easier first round opponent is more important in my opinion.
Unless they get a little distance between themselves and Carolina the sitting rotation is probably just Brodzinski, Rempe and Cuylle. I think Goodrow could be added to it at some point
Most of the teams in the league would rather see Lafraniere on the first power play unit over Kreider. Kreider is most useful on the power play. It’s where he thrives. Taking him off the first unit would be a huge mistake. I wouldn’t mess with the first power play unit but if I had to it would be Zibanejad that would move off the first unit. The second unit I would be interested in seeing Rempe parking in front of the goalie instead of having Kakko out there.