Making the New York Rangers one of the twelve Eastern Conference teams to be appointed to the playoff is a fair move by the NHL. The Rangers had just as good a shot at making the playoffs as the other Eastern Conference teams hovering around the cutoff line when play was suspended.
And while this will strike many Rangers fans as a hard fought victory, all that joy should be tempered by what this Ranger team lost due to the cancelled regular season and newly adapted playoff format.
Lost experience
Experience matters. That is what has been lost by this year’s Rangers squad.