Artemi Panarin’s playoff redemption continues with Rangers’ game-winner
NY Post
Rod Brind’Amour has not noticed much of a change in Artemi Panarin’s game over the past couple years and in broad strokes, the Carolina coach is correct.
Panarin was a superstar then, is a superstar now and has not overhauled the way he plays.
But over seven games against the Hurricanes in the 2022 playoffs coming off a 96-point season, Panarin was mostly quiet on the ice, ruminated publicly on doing “stupid s–t at the blue line” and finished the series with a mere goal and three assists.
Sunday, coming off a 120-point season, Panarin kept on doing what he did in the Rangers’ first-round sweep of the Capitals, which is to say scoring game-winning goals and impacting play throughout the night in a 4-3 victory for the Blueshirts at the Garden.
So maybe there is something a little different from when these teams last met in the playoffs.
For example, Panarin might have passed off the third-period chance he scored Sunday, when he came in off the rush and saw Vincent Trocheck to his right.
PHOENIX — Wednesday brought some cautiously optimistic updates for the Knicks frontcourt.
The Greatest Escape in franchise history was perpetrated by Glen Sather, when the general manager extricated himself and the Rangers from the final five years of Scott Gomez’s contract by moving the $7,357,143-per-year center to Montreal on June 30, 2009 after two years in New York.
The Yankees publicly are on the same page: Hal Steinbrenner, like Brian Cashman and Aaron Boone before him, said that issues with the club’s fundamentals did not hover over the team all season.
The first day of the rest of Daniel Jones’ dwindling time with the Giants arrived Wednesday, with Jones in the building, in the meetings, on the practice field (although not doing very much) and not at all part of the game plan for the next game, relegated to a non-participant role for the remainder of the season.
There will be a little extra magic for Knicks-Spurs on Christmas Day.
The quickest way for the Giants to climb out of quarterback hell is also the quickest way to extend their stay there for at least three more years.
The Lakers’ decision to keep Bronny James away from G League road games has sparked some debate about the level of preferential treatment the franchise is giving to LeBron’s son.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The Rangers continue to flex their strength on the road this season.
One of Tom Thibodeau’s stated points of emphasis for the Knicks this season — to increase their volume of 3-point attempts to take advantage of their proficiency from the outside — is starting to come to fruition.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — It’s the best-case scenario for Filip Chytil and the Rangers.