Some of the numbers weren’t pretty for Mika Zibanejad in Saturday’s 1-0 shootout win over Columbus at Madison Square Garden, from the pair of penalties he took to the two breakaways he missed.

Yeah, the heebie-jeebies have hit me and it's all about whether the Rangers actually can miss the playoffs. I'm worried that they might blow it altogether. Back in October, when the club couldn't stop winning,

Coach Peter Laviolette has changed the team’s defensive alignment, returning to the 1-3-1 that served the team well last season. That said, no structure works without application, and after six weeks spent moping about the loss of locker room leaders Barclay Goodrow and Jacob Trouba, the team seems to have rediscovered their verve.