Disclaimers: For last season’s Jeff Gorton report card, Shayna focused on his decisions from the offseason following the 2015-16 season through the Rangers’ playoff elimination in 2016-17. As such, this report card will be based on the decisions he’s made since last season’s playoff elimination through the conclusion of the 2017-18 regular season. In addition to that, this report card ended up being over 3,100 words, and that’s too much for one article. Today’s piece will be covering the moves Gorton made over the offseason of 2017.
Following last season’s abomination of a playoff exit at the hands of the Ottawa Senators, Jeff Gorton had his work cut out for him.