It Starts With Steven McDonald

The Rangers won the lottery, more or less, Tuesday night when it was announced that they would be selecting 2nd overall in this year’s NHL Entry Draft. This pick will pave the way towards building the next Stanley Cup contending Rangers team – the addition of Jack Hughes or more likely Kaapo Kakko will give the Blueshirts that elite homegrown talent they’ve been lacking for so long, and will accelerate a process that many feared would go awry, somehow.

Before the lottery, General Manager Jeff Gorton announced that he would have a good luck charm with him, but only revealed that it was the late Steven McDonald’s shield after everything was said and done. The Rangers organization made perhaps…