What Rangers hope to accomplish with Mike Sullivan's new zone defense

On the first day of training camp, Vincent Trocheck peeled back the curtain on the system new Rangers coach Mike Sullivan is implementing.

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And according to the new alternate captain, the defensive zone is a lot different.

“It’s a zone defense,” he said. “It’s a little bit less skating in the D-zone. It’s a lot of handoffs. I think it leaves you energy to play offense, while at the same time taking time and space away from the [opposing] offense when we’re in the D-zone. It’s not like a man-on-man system, where you’re just chasing your guy the entire shift, which a lot of time when you