Depending on your outlook, this could be good news or bad news for the Rangers.
Mats Zuccarello sounds like he wants to remain in Dallas, which — provided the Stars, too, want him back — would give the Rangers the Stars’ 2020 first-round pick. But it means the popular forward wouldn’t be returning to Broadway.
“This is my team now. We’ll see what’s going on,” he told Dallas reporters Thursday, two days after the Stars were eliminated from the playoffs in Game 7 by the Blues. “I’m kind of a guy when someone believes in you and wants you, I usually like that.