As usual Al you watch games with your eyes closed. Other teams have developed their young players properly while this organization has been incompetent. Due to properly developing their young players, the Rangers consistently look slow and lack talent at even strength against these other teams. Shesterkin had to be in the zone last year for them to win most games. That is not the case so far. Even if he got hot, this team has not improved. Other teams all over the league have because they develop their young players properly. We replaced Strome with Trochek. Yes, a good upgrade. We replaced Motte with Vesey. A major downgrade. We replaced Copp with Kravtsov. An enormous downgrade. We replaced Vatrano with Blais. An enormous downgrade. Now, granted three of those four were at the deadline. However, with all the other teams improving and this team not, the playoffs are looking bleak, early. You are failing to comprehend, which is common among our fan base, that other teams in this conference didn't stay the same or get worse. Many of them got a lot better. This team did not and it shows.