When your team doesn’t make the playoffs in the NHL, your summer break is long. Rangers defenseman Rob O’Gara used his time productively.
The Long Island native got engaged over the summer, and did some traveling. But overall, he spent most of his time in Foxborough, Mass., working in the gym and on the ice, getting ready for his third professional hockey season, and his first training camp with the Rangers.
“I kind of consider myself a nomad,’’ O’Gara said Friday as the Rangers kicked off training camp with their on-ice testing. “You go from hotel to hotel, my fiancee’s apartment.