Dan Bylsma is not a candidate to be the Rangers next head coach, but the man who was behind the bench for the Penguins’ 2009 Stanley Cup victory did have some thoughts on the Blueshirts’ situation — thoughts that he thinks are held around the league more abundantly than one might guess.
“I guess my first thought would be, what direction are the Rangers going, exactly?” Bylsma told The Post in a recent phone conversation. “Clearly it would seem from the last couple months and the deadline that the words ‘retool’ and ‘rebuild’ have been used. Is that the direction they’re going?