The Season Is Dead, Long Live The Season
With just three wins in their last thirteen, and just three weeks or so to the trade deadline, it looks as if the Rangers are about to embark on something they’ve never really done in modern times: cash in now in order to help rebuild for the future.
A slow start to the season, followed by a period of prosperity has been capped off with a dismal period of non-competitiveness, compounded by injuries to five starters and a drop off in the play of Henrik Lundqvist. The latter probably was the only reason the Rangers managed to be competitive at all this year, with the veteran netminder covering up the mistakes for a team which has struggled in their own end going back a couple of seasons at least.