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This emerging Rangers star has potential to be team's ultimate X-factor in 2025-26

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The New York Rangers have a new identity after last season's disappointing run. There is a new head coach behind the bench in Mike Sullivan, a new captain in J.T. Miller, and all of your favorite players returning to try and give one last run at Lord Stanley.

If this franchise wants to be anywhere near that kind of territory, they must have a player or two become an ultimate X-factor. This player has to take over the game on a nightly basis. Whether it is scoring the puck, facilitating it, or making sure the opposition doesn't have it, this player has to be a difference maker.