TAMPA — Ryan McDonagh was done working out, and all the Rangers trainers had left the practice facility in Westchester to catch the team flight to Vancouver. But the captain, who was rehabbing his right-hand/wrist injury, stuck around. He turned on the television and sat there by himself, waiting to hear if he had been traded.
By 2 p.m., an hour before Monday’s deadline, there was nothing. He decided he would take the 15-minute drive to his home in Rye to be with his wife and young daughter, telling The Post on Wednesday that he thought, “If something does happen, I’d rather be around my family to go through that emotion.