It didn’t take long after the firing of head coach Alain Vigneualt for the New York Rangers to be featured prominently in the hockey world.
On April 9th, reports came in that KHL winger Ilya Kovalchuk would sign with the Rangers this off-season for the next 2-3 seasons. Kovalchuk himself later refuted any such reports, but that makes sense considering he only came off of the NHL voluntary retirement list on April 15th (his 35th birthday) and he can’t sign a contract with an NHL team until July 1st.
However, assuming that Kovalchuk does indeed become a New York Ranger, how would he fit into this rebuilding team?