It’s a high-wire act for Filip Chytil and the Rangers without much of a safety net for either party.
The 25-year-old has been their center and perhaps their best skater throughout a disappointing and turbulent first quarter of the season. He changes the dynamic with his speed and his ability to create time and space on the attack through the neutral zone, one of the few Rangers who have displayed the ability to do that.
He changes the dynamic of the depth of the lineup for when Chytil is in, the Rangers can present a triple-pronged threat.
But in pro sports — maybe in life — the most important ability is availability and that is one that Chytil has lacked through a career that has been impacted by a series of concussions and both identified and unidentified injuries that have sidelined the center multiple times.
