Earlier today I had the pleasure of speaking to Newsday Sports’ Colin Stephenson about the Rangers and these next few days leading up to the trade deadline.
On Deadline Strategy
I asked Stephenson about what the strategy would be for the Rangers in terms of trading players, questioning the motives behind it. He claims that the big risk in not trading them is potentially losing them for nothing in the offseason, citing the Islanders as a example of this phenomenon last offseason. He makes the point that the Rangers are in a rebuild and that, even if they would like to keep these players, they can’t risk losing them for nothing as opposed to receiving assets in return.