In the long hockey offseason, it’s normal for nothing stories to gain traction because there’s a lull in the news. For the New York Rangers, a second straight year without postseason hockey has the community in a fever over something to take up time until this June’s entry draft. Henrik Lundqvist expressing his desire to play his entire career with New York isn’t a surprise.
So, the report today in Expressen, a newspaper in Sweden that Lundqvist “doesn’t know if he’ll stay with the Rangers his entire career,” isn’t a total shock. The goaltender understands the direction that the organization is going in and that means he may not be able to get an extension beyond these final two years.