One of the biggest pieces of a rebuild is acquiring and developing young talent, either through the Draft or via trades. Sometimes, a team can find a talent that everyone else misses, and that talent can become a key piece for their next great run. For the Rangers, that piece looks to be Filip Chytil.
Taken 21st overall out of the Czech junior league during the 2017 NHL Draft, Chytil was relatively unknown to most Rangers fans before he put on a show in his first preseason. This earned him a cup of coffee with the big club to start the year, before being demoted to Hartford, where the young Czech forward then spent a majority of the 2017-18 season.