The clock can’t strike 3 on Monday afternoon soon enough for the reeling Rangers.
That’s the trade deadline. It has been hanging over them since Feb. 8 when the front office admitted that it needed to rebuild, that moves were coming before the deadline and in the summer. Out with some of the older crowd. In with the younger crowd. Stockpile draft picks.
The passing of the deadline doesn’t mean the results will necessarily get better in the short term. But the team has had to try to deal with this distraction for more than two weeks.