New York Rangers: Ranking the team’s active defensemen

Dissecting a defense is often a job that can get coaches fired. Some defenses can be understaffed, some improperly deployed. The New York Rangers fall into both of those categories.

The group that the New York Rangers have on defense is not only incredibly young, but also inexperienced. The elder statesman on the back end is Marc Staal with over 750 games played.

Brady Skjei has played the second most games and is only in his sophomore season with 170 games in his career. The rest of the players on the defense all have less than 41 games played in their NHL careers.

With the loss of players of Dan Girardi, Ryan McDonagh, Kevin Klein and others over the last few seasons, their blue line has been bereft of experience. .

We decided to take a look at six active defensemen on the team and rank them. Keep in mind that Kevin Shattenkirk, Tony DeAngelo and Steven Kampfer have all been excluded from the list.