As concern grows about Chytil's future even without a long-term diagnosis, the Rangers might need to start thinking about filling his spot.

The clouds of uncertainty that have consistently hovered over Filip Chytil are now grayer than the Seattle sky the Rangers flew through on Saturday.  And no, the Czech center was not aboard as he went through further evaluation in New York for the upper-body injury he sustained last game in a collision with K’Andre Miller along the half wall.

It’s possible that Chytil was fine and that the Rangers made the decision that with a 3-1 lead and the 25-year-old’s history of concussions, they would be cautious and not play him in the third period. If that’s the case, however, why would they have played him for one shift late in the second?