It didn’t come with the first practice, it didn’t come with the first preseason game, and it won’t come until the games start to mean something.
But eventually, Kevin Shattenkirk is planning on feeling that hometown pressure, the pressure he signed up for this summer when he took a deal below market value to sign with the Rangers, the team he grew up rooting for as a kid in New Rochelle.
“It’s not here yet, but it’s looming,” Shattenkirk told The Post, with his team readying for a preseason game against the Islanders at Bridgeport’s Webster Bank Arena on Friday night.