With only three games remaining before the nightmare that New York’s 2017-18 season has been comes to a close, there isn’t much new information to glean from the current roster players. Outside of letting Filip Chytil and Lias Andersson enjoy their first taste of NHL action, the rest of the team’s roster players are known commodities. Nothing that any player does from now until next Sunday should change how the team approaches the offseason. With that in mind, Jeff Gorton’s priority from now until the the beginning of the Entry Draft should be to evaluate who he wants to build the next core of New York Rangers hockey around.
Examining the Optics of a Lundqvist Buyout and Succession Plan
