Construction tends not to be a glamorous business, but you couldn’t tell that by all of the hoopla generated by the glitzy moves the Rangers made this offseason by — repeat after me — adding Artemi Panarin via free agency, Jacob Trouba and Adam Fox via trades and selecting Kaapo Kakko second-overall in the draft.
So there is more talent. That is undeniable. And there is excitement on top of intrigue, even if some of both might have been temporarily mitigated by management’s astute recognition that young blue chippers Filip Chytil and Vitali Kravtsov would both be better served by starting the year in Hartford.