So the Rangers wouldn’t take both of Mika Zibanejad’s wingers away from him at the deadline, would they?
For while we know Chris Kreider, who recorded his 11th goal in the past 17 games in Friday’s 4-2 Garden victory over the horrid Red Wings, is an endangered species, the same could be true of Pavel Buchnevich, who scored the match’s opening goal.
It is not as if the Russian winger poses a cap problem, working as he is on the first half of a two-year deal worth $3.25 million per. It is not as if Buchnevich would yield the kind of bounty in return that management might be able to elicit in return for Kreider.