Ranger Power Play - it's Worse this year? Is that even possible?

It doesn't seem possible - but it's happened.

(As you know - last night we covered the Ranger Penalty Kill team - but today we're talking powerplay)

Last season the Ranger's Power Play was really bad. How bad? Well, our Power Play was 29th out of 30 team - and converted at a terrible 13.9% success rate.

Well, this year Tortorella and Sather made this a top level item to address in the offseason. The Rangers went out and got some legitimate goal scoring for the man advantage - led of course by Marian Gaborik. And Chris Higgins has shown some success on the Power Play in year's past, and Kotalic appears to have a cannon shot from the Point. Throw in a few offensive minded defenseman and it adds up to what should be a rejuvenated power play this season.

So we pretty much knew the Rangers would be moving off the 29th spot in power play production - and sure enough - we have.

We've moved down to 30th!

I wish I were kidding - but it's true. So far in the two games the Rangers have played - we are an anemic 0-9. Zero goals. And there are a few other teams with zero powerplay goals this season (only five out of thirty) but none of the other scoreless teams have as many chances as the Rangers did.

So - in a league where special teams are often the difference maker between closely matched hockey clubs - so far the Rangers are measurably worse on both the PP and the PK. In fact, with our shorthanded goal - our PK is OUTSCORING our PP!

Like we said - it is really really early - but it's not the way we expected to start off.