Regarding the Rangers’ personnel after Tanner Glass and Nathan Gerbe were placed on waivers and Boo Nieves was assigned to the AHL Wolf Pack on Friday:
1. The Chris Kreider-Mika Zibanejad-Pavel Buchnevich line should remain intact and open the season against the Islanders on Thursday at the Garden as the Blueshirts’ top unit.
Kreider had the most locked-in camp of his still-young career, Zibanejad was outstanding and Buchnevich displayed both a nose for the net and a willingness to engage in front, where so many goals are scored — including his first on a deflection against the Flyers on Thursday.