When the New York Rangers dealt their captain Ryan McDonagh to the Tampa Bay Lightning, it signaled that the rebuild letter wasn’t just meaningless words but a call to action.
The question we look to answer is if that call was the right one.
Ryan McDonagh trade tree
On February 26th, 2018 the Rangers traded McDonagh and JT Miller for Vladislav Nemestnikov, Brett Howden, Libor Hajek, 2018 1st round pick (Nils Lundkvist), and a conditional second round pick (Karl Henriksson).