So by this logic we are just banking shooting percentage and the floodgates should open in the back half of the season.
Never mind the fact that the Rangers have created an abysmally low number of quality scoring opportunities because they are simply not that good.
It's going to be more than that, the team needs to figure out it's offensive identity, and sooner rather than later.
I don't think they lack forward depth as much as they lack top-end talent, and it really hurts that two of their three best forwards offensively are hurt (Nash and Callahan) and one is simply lost right now (Stepan, and it really hurt to miss training camp with a new coach coming in), so we're seeing guys like Boyle play bigger roles then they should be playing.
I felt that tonight, they outplayed Montreal at even-strength. They just couldn't finish, partly because of bad luck (Budaj was outstanding), the lack of skill, and probably more important, the confusion over how to play in the offensive zone. This team looks stuck between trying to play spread-out creative hockey and crashing the net. A lot of times tonight, I saw point shots that Budaj had no problem seeing, and that has to change.
It's just a combination of the team being in disarray right now and just being unlucky.