George Ays

To take a break from the scoring chances for a couple of days, instead I want revisit a topic I looked at over the summer.  Refreshing the memory a bit, in August I looked at the amazing consistency of NHL players to get shots on goal at even strength.  What

The final scores for the two games were vastly different, but the scoring chances were quite similar. In five of the six periods, the New York Rangers held the New York Islanders to 3 or fewer chances, and two or fewer at even strength. Credit the solid defensive effort, or

The New York Rangers' brutal November schedule of 16 games in 29 nights is now behind us, so just as I did in October, I've tallied all the 'fancy' counting stats and summarized them for November. Before we go any further, here is a refresher

Unlike the first game against the Pittsburgh Penguins, the New York Rangers actually came out ahead in the first period, outchancing the Penguins 5-3, but losing 1-0 thanks to the terrible turnover by Ruslan Fedotenko. The second period, however, more closely resembled what we saw the first time around, with

The New York Rangers came out of the gate incredibly slow, allowing the Florida Panthers to register the first four scoring chances of the game, including a ringing post off the stick of Shawn Matthias. After taking a 4 minute penalty, Sean Avery jumped out of the box, took a

I took a look at individual chances over the first seven games.  Since it coincides with the quarter pole of the season, I thought it would be a good take a look at the chances after 21 games, which concluded with the game last weekend against the Minnesota Wild.  Thus