The New York Rangers persevered through their first game after losing Adam Fox to a long-term injury , defeating one of the league's hottest teams, the Dallas Stars. While the overtime win was a good confidence-builder with one of their best players missing, Vladislav Gavrikov and the Rangers realize that the work is only just beginning .

“It's going to be probably on all of us, I would say. Every single one of the D got to make a step in the game,” Gavrikov told reporters after the game. “Obviously, Foxy is big for our team, playing big minutes offensively, on the power play. So it's hard to replace him, but we got to try and [that] responsibility [falls] on all of us.”

The Rangers will have to rely on the defense as a whole to make up for Fox's injury. One of the most significant

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