The Rangers play a fast game, but also a patient game.
"We're making really good reads," McDonagh said. "You see some of the opportunities we get, the other team is kind of coming down with a four-man rush and they throw it blind through the crease, so we come back with an odd-man rush. For us, if there is no play to be made, we've been hanging onto it waiting for support and buying our time to make something happen instead of trying to force it. We don't have guys blowing the zone trying to create something out of nothing."
That comes back to the forward support, which is leading to a five-man game up the ice.
"I think it starts with us doing the right thing in our own end and how we break out the pucks," goalie Henrik Lundqvist said. "We can come with speed and come together, support each other, and from there we create a lot of chances. But then you're going to have games where it's tougher to create chances and even when you have chances you're not going to score. So right now we've been cashing in and that's good for us."
They're not doing it by luck. The Rangers are playing a smart, aggressive, fast 200-foot game. No one in their dressing room is suggesting they'll keep scoring four or five goals every game, but everyone in there believes they can continue to score at a winning rate if they keep doing what they're doing.