At face value, an NHL team’s season should always be about the product on the ice. However, as a rebuilding team, the New York Rangers have more to worry about than just what happens on the ice at Madison Square Garden. Success this year would actually be to the detriment of the future of the organization.
Last year, the front office made a series of trades to acquire assets in hopes of improving the prospect pool. In the grand scheme of things, prospects are the life’s blood of an NHL organization. Without young cost controlled players to integrate into a roster, a team ages out and becomes over the hill overnight.