This unfamiliar feeling of watching the postseason on the couch is a weird one. The New York Rangers have been perennial contenders for the better part of a decade but were never able to get over the hump. Now, the team would be lucky to make the postseason next year with the talent in currently holds.
Putting aside the elephant in the room of who the next coach will be, things are unknown up and down the lineup. The blue line will be a conglomerate of defensemen trying to prove themselves. The forward group is top heavy and lacks bottom sixth depth.