It’s almost August, nearly a month into free agency and nearly six months after the Rangers announced they had decided to strip the roster down and rebuild, and Ron Duguay is finally getting the message that the Rangers are really serious about sticking to the plan.
“I didn’t know they were going to go all-in (on the rebuild),’’ Duguay, the ex-Ranger who is currently an in-studio hockey analyst for MSG Network, said Tuesday at a Garden press conference to announce a partnership between the Garden and soft drink giant Pepsi. “I thought it was just something they were saying, and I thought, ‘OK, they’re going younger, they’ve got some young talent, they want to go with them, they want to make that the core of the team.