Rangers power-play gets new look with unit seen as difference-maker

When the Rangers worked on special teams for the first time in training camp Monday, plenty of pieces from the past remained.Adam Fox quarterbacked the top unit.

Mika Zibanejad was perched on the flank on his one-timer side.They’re the constants that have transcended coaches.

Two others from the top line last year — when the Blueshirts finished with the No.5 clip in the league — returned too: J.T.

Miller and Alexis Lafrenière.  Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Mollie Walker about the inside buzz on the Rangers.But there was also an element of intrigue.

A bit of unknown, when Pavel Dorofeyev and his left-handed shot replaced Vincent Trocheck and his right-handed one.Defenseman Sean Durzi, who was acquired in the Trocheck trade in July, quarterbacked the second unit alongside Gabe Perreault, Will Cuylle, Oliver Bjorkstrand and Eeli Tolvanen.

And head coach Mike Sullivan said he thinks the unit once again “can be a difference-maker for us.” “The power play was one of the bright spots of our team last year fairly consistently,” Sullivan said Monday after the non-game group — with mostly NHL players — practiced ahead of the preseason opener against the Devils.“It took us a little while to get it going [at] the beginning of the year versus after that.

I thought the second half of the year in particular was excellent. “We lost a right-handed shot versus a lefty, and that’s gonna change some of the things that we do with it.But very capable guys.

I think they have an opportunity to be very impactful for our team.” Still, it’ll serve as a significantly different unit from the ones that featured Artemi Panarin ripping shots into the net or Chris Kreider hovering at the net front or Trocheck roaming in the bumper.But the power play, after dipping to No.

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