Patrick Kane trade shows these are the Rockstar Rangers
And the Rangers … the Rangers simply got the biggest name with the biggest résumé even if we all know that the winger is not 21 or 25 or 29 anymore. They got a triple Stanley Cup winner who has spent a career thriving under the spotlight and scoring important postseason goals.
Now, will it work? Are the Rangers built for the grind? Can they get to the net when they could not in their final four games against Tampa Bay in last year’s conference finals. Have they somehow misread the rock-paper-scissors postseason landscape by believing that skill can be decisive when push comes to shove and shove comes to assault and battery in the playoffs?And this specifically relating to No.
Yes, everyone agrees the Rangers could use more muscle. That is why a few weeks ago I identified Tanner Jeannot as the trade target who should have been at the top of Drury’s wish list. But the way the team is constructed, Jeannot would have been a fourth-liner in New York when he really should be a third-line linchpin. But that can’t happen here with the Kids third in line on a three-scoring-line team.
You might think the Rangers would have been better off getting pending free agent Ryan O’Reilly, who went to Toronto. That’s a fair argument to advance. Except if he were in the middle of the second line, what about Trocheck? And if Trocheck were bumped to the third line, whither Filip Chytil?
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