Filip Chytil to play wing tonight

Per Vince Mercogliano, Filip Chytil will likely play left wing tonight, as the Rangers deal with the Artemiy Panarin injury.

Chytil, a healthy scratch the other night, is a hot topic lately. Many point to his “5th year with the Rangers,” but include his 9 games at the end of 2018 as a year. They also include the two lost seasons the last two years. The reality is that Chytil has only played 211 games with the Rangers, that’s about 2.5 seasons. He’s also only 22 years old.

That was a tangent, but the moral of the story is that Chytil on the wing is a good experiment. At the very least, it gives the Rangers options. However, it does mean that Barclay Goodrow and Greg McKegg are your 3C and 4C, respectively, and that isn’t good.

The Rangers have a forward depth problem, when one injury can make the lineup look like they have multiple injuries.