While the New York Rangers have struggled defensively over the last few years, the team’s future on the back-end is bright. Outside of the team’s current core, there are a plethora of promising young defensemen waiting in the wings.
Twenty-eighteen first-round picks K’Andre Miller and Nils Lundkvist are blue-chip prospects and are both having impressive seasons. Joey Keane, the Blueshirts’ 2018 third-round pick, has been arguably the AHL’s top rookie defenseman and is off to a great start. Twenty-nineteen draftees Matthew Robertson and Zac Jones possess great potential.
With tons of up-and-coming defensemen in the system, the Rangers need to prepare themselves for the future.