The tricky power-play challenge that the Rangers are still trying to solve

OTTAWA — The Rangers power play was operating at 20 percent heading into Saturday’s game against the Senators, having capitalized on just seven of the 35 man-advantage opportunities they’ve had so far this season. Head coach Mike Sullivan has consistently called it a work in progress amid personnel changes and, more notably, the unfamiliarity with having more left-handed shots than right-handed shots for the first time in years. Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Mollie Walker about the inside buzz on the Rangers.The adjustment to having three lefties (Pavel Dorofeyev, Alexis Lafrenière, J.T.
Miller) and two righties (Adam Fox and Mika Zibanejad), as opposed to the four-righty alignment they’ve deployed the last seven seasons, is apparently more significant than one would expect. “We knew this was going to be a challenge,” Miller told The Post after practice Friday.“It seems like a simple thing, but having one more lefty versus righties, it just puts — we’re still shuffling.
I mean, if you look, I’ve played pretty much everywhere.We’re trying to find something that’s going to click.
We’ve had some games where some stuff has worked, but it’s just there’s been nothing that’s been consistent in the sense of getting the good looks.For a while there, we had plenty of ‘O’ zone time.
Just really not dangerous plays that we like.And then unfortunately, it’s like anything where you don’t have the confidence a little bit.
You start to go off the rails, and then your breakouts aren’t as clean and you don’t get in and frustration builds. “So just got to find something.I think that’s why we did it [Friday in practice].
We did a lot of 4-on-5, on twos, just to feel the puck.You can see the emphasis is ‘move it quickly.’ Like, know what you’re going to do before you get on.
So that’s something we’ve been working on.Listen, it just takes one or two a...