Perhaps all Artemi Panarin needs to do is shave his head?

Panarin certainly thinks so.

“I had to change something,” the New York Rangers’ 34-year-old star winger said. “Next stop, left stick for me.”

With just two goals and seven points to open 2025-26, Panarin has been far from his usual productive self. In his six seasons with the Blueshirts, he’s averaged more than a point per game, peaking in 2023-24, when he had a career-high 120 points in 82 games. Fittingly, that career-high season came after Panarin shaved his head.

In 2023-24, Panarin also had 44 power play points — an average of more than half a power play point per game — as the Rangers’ man advantage operated at a 26.4% clip, good enough for third in the league.

So far in 2025-26, the Rangers have converted on just 4 of th

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