LAS VEGAS \u2014 The Rangers\u2019 early reputation as road warriors was never going to be sustainable, but it has already begun to wane.<\/p>\n
Limited to fewer than 20 shots on goal on the road for the first time this season, the Blueshirts offense stalled once again in a 3-2 loss to the Golden Knights on Tuesday night at T-Mobile Arena.<\/p>\n
The regulation loss counted as just their second away from Madison Square Garden so far this season, with the prior one coming over three weeks ago in Calgary.<\/p>\n
Offense has been in short supply for the Rangers as a team for most of the 2025-26 campaign.<\/p>\n
The lack of production from key players, however, is quickly approaching worrisome territory.<\/p>\n
One goal in the past nine games from captain J.T. Miller isn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n
Four goals in 21 games from Alexis Lafreni\u00e8re isn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n
Taylor Raddysh, who has skated the past four games on the fourth line, being tied for the third-most goals on the team (5) is indicative of how much more they need from their marquee skaters.<\/p>\n
Ben Hutton celebrates after scoring a goal against Igor Shesterkin during the second period of the Rangers\u2019 3-2 loss to the Golden Knights on Nov. 18, 2025 in Las Vegas. Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cAt some point you look in the mirror,\u201d said Miller, who has 10 points in 21 games. \u201cSpeaking on behalf of myself, I certainly expect a hell of a lot more production than what I have. I\u2019ve never really gauged my game on points, and I said that a lot. Typically, when I bring my game, the points come. That being said, this year, it seems like nothing\u2019s really going in the net. We\u2019ve got a big enough sample size that 25% of the season is gone, and we\u2019re in a lot of one-goal games.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I can raise my personal standard and lead the team a little bit better production wise, I think our outcome in these games are going to change. So it\u2019s making me frustrated.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jonny Brodzinski scoring the only Rangers goal through 57 minutes of the 60-minute contest Tuesday night in Vegas tells you all you need to know about how this one went. The veteran depth skater almost had another in the third period, but the play was challenged for offside and quickly waved off.<\/p>\n
Vegas capitalized on both of their power plays \u2014 one in the first and another in the third \u2014 to help snap a four-game winless streak at home.<\/p>\n
Alexis Lafreni\u00e8re passes the puck during the second period of the Rangers\u2019 road loss to the Golden Knights. NHLI via Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we\u2019ve got to pressure more,\u201d head coach Mike Sullivan said of the Rangers PK, which has given up at least one power-play goal in each of the last five straight games. \u201cI just feel like there\u2019s a lot of hesitation in their game right now.\u201d<\/p>\n
After Ben Hutton\u2019s first goal of the season trickled through Rangers goalie Igor Shesterkin early in the second period, Sullivan began tweaking the forward lines to try to jump-start the Rangers offensively.<\/p>\n
Brodzinski came through by cleaning up a rebound off Will Cuylle\u2019s shot on a two-on-one rush to cut the Golden Knights\u2019 lead in half. Still, the Rangers did not produce nearly enough quality scoring chances to really threaten despite the low-scoring affair.<\/p>\n
Adam Fox reacts during the third period of the Rangers\u2019 road loss to the Golden Knights. NHLI via Getty Images<\/p>\n
After 40 minutes, Jusso Parssinen \u2014 back in the lineup for the first time in four games \u2014 led the Rangers with two shots on goal despite logging the lowest time on ice.<\/p>\n
The six-on-five Rangers goal from Vincent Trocheck with 2:43 left in regulation was ultimately too little too late.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt just feels like we\u2019re a step behind sometimes in the O-zone, where we can be on top of the guys a little bit quicker and create turnovers and get chances off of that,\u201d Trocheck said. \u201cWe can fix that a little bit, and then obviously, getting to the net. They\u2019re a big team, they got a lot of big D. They protect the net really well, but you see their goals in front of the net. That\u2019s how you score in this league nowadays: It\u2019s hard-fought, dirty goals going to the net.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS \u2014 The Rangers\u2019 early reputation as road warriors was never going to be sustainable, but it…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":389458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,1302,5226,5225,293,5228,5227,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,3116,80412],"class_list":{"0":"post-389457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-new-york-rangers","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkcity","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa","24":"tag-vegas-golden-knights","25":"tag-vincent-trocheck"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115575289576611985","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}