The Rangers have been near the bottom of the NHL in power-play goals and percentage all season – and Chris Drury says he’s tired of it.
“We’ve been bottom 10 in the league all year, I think,” Drury said at practice yesterday of the Blueshirts’ power play, which was 22nd in the league at 15 percent before last night’s games.
“I don’t know if it’s frustration or confidence. … Unacceptable is a word I like to use. We’re not gonna do a darn thing in the playoffs if we’re ranked 14, 15, 16 in power plays.
“And right now 22nd is unacceptable.”
After dropping their past two games, including a 3-0 shutout at the Garden on Sunday against Calgary in which they went 0-for-4 with the man advantage, the Rangers hit the road tonight to take on the Thrashers (7 p.m., MSG2, WABC (770 AM).
The Rangers have had more power-play chances this season (140) than any other team, but sat 18th in power-play goals (21).
Coach Tom Renney had his team watching video yesterday to try to find ways to improve their lackluster play with the man advantage.
“Pretty much every day we do power play,” Renney said. “The video doesn’t lie, so when you’re done with your on-ice work, then you supplement that with your off-ice work.”
For his part, Drury, who is tied with Markus Naslund for the team lead in power-plays goals with four, wouldn’t mind working a little more on the power play on the ice in practice.
“Yeah, I do like practicing it,” Drury said. “I know it’s a hard thing to practice, but one-timers … you don’t want guys to be getting pucks off the ankles or deflections off the face. It’s kind of a tough area to keep going over and over at it, but I wouldn’t mind doing it more.”
Despite the Rangers’ struggles through the first 30 games on the power play, Scott Gomez, who hasn’t scored a power-play goal this season, thinks the team isn’t far away from putting things together.
“I think we’ve just got to execute,” he said. “We’re getting good looks. Hopefully, some bounces and breaks will go our way, but it is what it is. The execution’s got to get a little better, but it’s too early in the season still.
“It’s something we definitely want to improve, but no one’s panicking about it.”
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Renney wouldn’t say who would start at goalie tonight. … Wade Redden, who left Saturday’s game against Montreal with a lower-body injury, skated yesterday, said he felt pretty good, and that there would be a decision today about his status for tonight’s game.
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