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Rangers hire John Lilley to fill personnel and scouting positions

Rangers general manager Chris Drury still has a lot of holes to fill in the organization this summer, but he continues to check off boxes on his to-do list. On Tuesday, the Rangers announced that Drury has hired John Lilley as the team's director of player personnel and director of amateur scouting.

Lilley, who turned 49 on Tuesday, comes to the Rangers from the Toronto Maple Leafs, for whom he was director of amateur scouting. He had been with the Leafs since 2006, when he joined that organization as an amateur scout.

Lilley, from Wakefield, Massachusetts, played for the U.