The Rangers’ top four will most likely look different by necessity on Sunday afternoon against the Red Wings.
That is a rarity for a group whose top pairings have been essentially unchanged for the past two seasons, but the choice in front of Rangers coach Gerard Gallant comes down to whether he prefers to keep K’Andre Miller and Jacob Trouba together or to move Miler to play alongside Adam Fox, with someone else — presumably Zac Jones or Libor Hajek — on Trouba’s left.
Per Natural Stat Trick, Miller and Fox have been on the ice together for 173:37 at five-on-five since the start of the 2020-21 season and have a 51.82 expected goals percentage together. More than half of that time, however, came in 2020-21, when Miller was a rookie instead of a top-pair defenseman now averaging 22:04 per game. The two also skated together in the preseason this year against the Islanders, when Trouba and Lindgren sat.
“I’m not worried about that at all,” Gallant said of the ripple effects from Lindgren’s injury. “It’s not like K’Andre and Trouba are second fiddle to those guys. They’re a big part of our group. I put those four on against anybody.” “When you play with somebody for so long, obviously there’s little things where you don’t even have to talk,” Miller said. “It’s just talking without talking, really. You make eye contact and you know what the other person’s doing. With playing with somebody new, I always try to talk a little bit more, let them know where I am, where the pressure is.”
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