Misfits? Leftovers? Or, just the Rangers, in the wake of the wholly unanticipated and strange sweep of their three-game trek through western Canada?
1. The mandate from ownership/management to deconstruct and reconstruct was righteous, but there is no doubt that it caused trauma within the room and the coaches’ office.
You say if they wanted to avoid this, they should have done better, just about every single one of them over the first five months through which only Henrik Lundqvist, Marc Staal, maybe Kevin Hayes, Michael Grabner and Ondrej Pavelec (in a limited role) lived up to expectations and the group consistently appeared disorganized.