This will be a two-track season for the organization, one in which the Rangers will more likely than not take the local to the bitter end of 2018-19, and the other in which kids spread across the globe will attempt to get on the fast track to Broadway.
Progress will be measured more by the play of the kids than by the unit on the ice that, almost immaterial of the results, will be broken up and sold off as rental parts by late February.