{"id":35141,"date":"2022-06-03T15:24:01","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T15:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/what-was-behind-rangers-game-1-offensive-explosion\/"},"modified":"2022-06-03T15:24:01","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T15:24:01","slug":"what-was-behind-rangers-game-1-offensive-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/what-was-behind-rangers-game-1-offensive-explosion\/","title":{"rendered":"What was behind Rangers&#8217; Game 1 offensive explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Artemi Panarin put forth a solid theory to explain why the Rangers seemed to generate offense differently in Game 1 of the conference final against Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe two teams definitely just have a different strategy when it comes to offense and defense,\u201d Panarin said through a translator following the 6-2 win Wednesday over the Lightning.  \u201cCarolina is more man-on-man.  So maybe that&#8217;s why there was a difference in how we countered them. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>That is as solid a thought as any, and surely played a role in the scoring explosion the Rangers conducted in Game 1. Breaking down the Hurricanes &#8211; a hard-forechecking team with a top-tier penalty kill &#8211; was different than countering Tampa Bay.  It took the Rangers until deep into the previous series before they could do it.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption>Artemi Panarin is greeted by his Rangers teammates after scoring in the third period of Game 1. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Much of their offense in that second-round series came on the rush, and via north-south hockey.  That was not the case on Wednesday, when the Rangers carried the puck into the offensive zone 22 times, per Corey Sznajder&#8217;s tracking, and moved it horizontally with more ease than they did in seven games against Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>But Panarin&#8217;s explanation is not the whole story &#8211; it can&#8217;t be &#8211; because the Rangers broke the dam wide open in Games 6 and 7 against the Hurricanes.  Going into Game 2 against the Lightning, they&#8217;ve scored 17 times in three games.  That&#8217;s more goals than they scored in the first five games against Carolina.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm?e=NYPH2727991958&amp;light=true\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told them to open it up a little bit,\u201d Rangers coach Gerard Gallant joked Wednesday night.  \u201cWe&#8217;re playing hard.  Like I said, when you compete hard defensively and you get opportunities like we did tonight, some two-on-ones and some power-play goals, that&#8217;s the recipe for us to win hockey games. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>One possible contributing factor: The return of Barclay Goodrow has let the Rangers roll four lines in a way they couldn&#8217;t when the fourth-line center was injured.  Though Goodrow&#8217;s line was the only one not to score at even strength against Tampa Bay, it had the highest expected goals percentage of any forward line for either team, per Natural Stat Trick.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think offensively, we&#8217;re really good, we&#8217;re really deep,\u201d Alexis Lafreniere said.  \u201cSo for us, every time we&#8217;re on the ice, we&#8217;re gonna create as many chances as we can.  Try to limit their chances, especially their tempo.  You give them a little time, they&#8217;re gonna get some good chances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEspecially in playoffs, you need all four lines.  I think our four lines have been really good.  We&#8217;ve gotta keep it rolling. &#8220;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artemi Panarin put forth a solid theory to explain why the Rangers seemed to generate offense differently in Game 1 of the conference final against Tampa Bay. \u201cThe two teams definitely just have a different strategy when it comes to offense and defense,\u201d Panarin said through a translator following the 6-2 win Wednesday over the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/what-was-behind-rangers-game-1-offensive-explosion\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What was behind Rangers&#8217; Game 1 offensive explosion<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[3115,1527,2726,1526,2730,295,3437],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/060122Rangers64CW.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1024","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}