The pieces continue to move around, well after the Rangers began to lose en masse, well after management publicly declared its intention to rebuild with a letter to the fans on Feb. 8, and well after the Feb. 26 trade deadline.
Yet Jeff Gorton, the man running the show, has not seen this as a hard time for the franchise. Instead, this is all part of the general manager’s bigger plan to get the Rangers back on the winning track.
“I don’t look at it as a tough time, I look at it as an opportunity for us to move forward and rebuild and get some young players in here and see how they are,” Gorton said during an impromptu press conference after Tuesday’s practice in Tarrytown.