In a vacuum, the Rangers’ decision to cut bait on Lias Andersson by sending him back to the AHL on Friday afternoon isn’t a drastic one. It certainly stings in the interim given the optics, but the club is still rebuilding, which, contrary to popular sentiment isn’t synonymous with skating as many kids as possible. Sheep need shepherds.
Andersson still represents a significant measuring stick for how effective this rebuild can and will be, but his failure to stick full-time thus far isn’t damning for either party just yet.
”He’s made some great progress and he’s done some good things, but we just need to see more consistency out of him,” head coach David Quinn said in speaking to the media on the matter.