Rangers Ryan Lindgren needs to develop spatial awareness on ice

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Regarding the Rangers, whose ability to self-correct is yet another attribute they have developed under Peter Laviolette and the head coachs accomplished staff:

1. Dont look now, but perhaps Ryan Lindgren needs to be looking over his shoulder a bit more often in the wake of three successive games last week in which No. 55 was crushed as if he were Petr Prucha and unaware of where he was on the ice.

Tuesday, Lindgren was nailed by Torontos Jake McCabe before Mika Zibanejad in as substantial a role reversal as you could imagine stepped in for his teammate and challenged the Leafs winger. Friday, he took a big blow from Max Jones.

And then Saturday, the 25-year-old was crushed from behind into the rear boards by David Pastrnak in a continuation of a feud that apparently originated last season on Nov. 3, 2022 in a match at the Garden.

That was the night on which Lindgren caught Pastrnak unaware and drove the brilliant winger into the wall. Later, Pastrnak delivered a blow from the blind side in open ice that knocked the defenseman out of the game with a shoulder issue that sidelined him for the next two matches.

Pastrnak received a major and game misconduct for his blow Saturday that bloodied Lindgren and sent him off toward the end of the second period with a towel pressed across his face to stop the bleeding. The defenseman did not miss a shift in the third period.

Rangers_Ryan_Lindgren_needs_to_develop_spatial_awareness_on_ice 3Ryan Lindgren #55 of the New York Rangers skates past the Boston Bruins bench after taking a hit from David Pastrnak #88 of the Boston Bruins and being cut during the second period. Getty Images3David Pastrnak skates with the puck against Ryan Lindgren. NHLI via Getty ImagesToughness is not in question. But that is also not the point. Lindgren may be the toughest guy on the block, but taking repeated substantial blows the way he did last week surely takes a toll and exposes this suddenly vulnerable athlete to serious injury.

The comparison with Prucha smashed out of the league within six years after recording 30 goals as a rookie in 2005-06 and 22 as a sophomore is somewhat fanciful but a more apt one is likely Ryan McDonagh, who took repeated blows up against the boards, suffered a string of injuries, including a pair of shoulder separations, and leveled off his final three seasons on Broadway.

Lindgren needs to have, as Bill Bradley might phrase it, a slightly better sense of where he is on the ice and who is coming for him. As he gets another shot at McCabe in Toronto on Tuesday, he needs to be more aware of lurking danger.

2. If you have watched Mika Zibanejad long enough and we all have, through highs and lows beginning in 2016-17 you know that it will always only be a matter of time before he figures it out.

So valuable, especially on the defensive side of the puck, even when he might be running lukewarm, Zibanejad has kicked it up a notch. He is demanding the puck and assertive with it. He is using his body.

Witness Zibanejad stepping in for Lindgren, quite a moment indeed.

There is a swagger to No. 93 when he is scoring. That is the swagger we are seeing from Zibanejad, who is interacting more often and demonstrably with officials during games and television timeouts.

3. I think Igor Shesterkin needed Saturday more than the Rangers necessarily did.

And the recently vulnerable netminder delivered a superior, 21-save performance in this tense contest in which he kept his team within 1-0 until the Blueshirts could tie it at 10:49 of the third on a power play that was humming despite going only 1-for-6 before winning it in overtime.

Rangers_Ryan_Lindgren_needs_to_develop_spatial_awareness_on_ice 3Boston Bruins looks for a rebound in front of goaltender Igor Shesterkin #31 of the New York Rangers during the first period at TD Garden. Getty ImagesShesterkin was poised, sure and, yes, quick. He tracked the puck well and kept rebounds to a minimum and under control. He battled and got physical with Bs who consistently and aggressively went to the blue paint.

This was Shesterkins kind of game.

He needed it.

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