Earlier this month; I took a look at how the Rangers chose Mika Zibanejad as their center of the future and the spearhead of the team’s current rebuild. In that article, I talked about how over the course of the last few years the Rangers made series of trades that either directly or indirectly led them to having the young Swede as their clear number one center.
Of course this started with the 2016 trade to acquire Zibanejad (and a 2nd rounder) when the team sent Derick Brassard to Ottawa along with a 7th round pick.