BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — Here is the truism that makes Rangers brass smile, and affords it the ability to not rush anyone up the defensive pipeline.
“I’m a big believer that you can never have enough defensemen, because they always seem to be the ones that [get hurt] quickly because of how much contact they take,” AHL Hartford’s coach Keith McCambridge told The Post before his team’s 2-1 loss here the Islanders Bridgeport affiliate, the Sound Tigers, on Wednesday night. “Hopefully that doesn’t happen. But they’re all just focused on making sure they work on their games, continue to grow, game-in and game-out, and the get the repetitions in practice.