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Think about, if you'll, a world the place Mika Zibanejad and never Artemi Panarin had scored the series-winner in Sport 7 in opposition to the Penguins. Or for that matter, anybody aside from Panarin.
Once you put that second apart, it's tougher than it needs to be to provide you with the final sport Panarin seemed like himself. Sport 2 in opposition to the Penguins, when he scored a aim with two assists, was over three weeks in the past.
It’s straightforward to know why Panarin has seemed like a toned-down model of himself — he defined it early on within the Rangers’ second-round collection in opposition to Carolina. He thrives on risk-taking, open hockey. That isn't how the sport is performed this late into Could.
However we're speaking a couple of participant who completed fourth within the league in assists this season, who had a profession excessive 96 factors and who the Rangers are paying over $11 million. So it doesn't fairly lower it to shrug and say his type doesn’t essentially translate to the postseason.
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