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One Significant Reason The Rangers Are Out Of The Playoffs
by PuckStopsHere on 03/20/10 at 10:29 AM ET
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One team that made playoffs last year that is looking like they will miss them this year is the New York Rangers. The Rangers are currently tenth in the East Conference with a 31-40 record (with nine regulation tie points). They are three points back of eighth seed Boston.
In order for a playoff team from last year to miss playoffs this year, several things must go wrong. This season, the Rangers have allowed 0.12 more goals per game than they have scored. Last year, the Rangers allowed 0.14 more goals per game than they scored. Essentially the team’s +/- is the same this year as it was last year. The New York Rangers are scoring more than they did last year and allowing more goals as well. I think that is an adjustment to a new coach John Tortorella who allows his team to play a more offensive style than Tom Renney (who coached most of last year).
With essentially the same team +/- as last year, the New York Rangers are approximately as good this year as they were last year. One stat that tells the difference is that the New York Rangers have not come back and won any games that they were losing at the start of the second period. They have been behind at the start of the second period 25 times so far this season and haven`t won any of those games. Last year, the New York Rangers came back and won six times when losing at the start of the second period.
The explanation some may give to this is one of clutch play, but I am not so sure that it holds. When you are looking at something that may only occur six times in a good year (coming back to win when losing at the start of the second period), there will be large fluctuations from year to year due to random fluctuation. This may be a result that is nothing more than dumb luck, but is has cost the New York Rangers in the standings and is likely as good a reason as any to explain why they will likely miss the playoffs.
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