VANCOUVER, British Columbia — This was Jeff Gorton as Walter White absorbing Mike Ehrmantraut’s warning against taking half measures before the general manager took full measures of his own in the midst of a season that broke bad for the Rangers.
The era that bridged Jaromir Jagr, Sean Avery, Tom Renney, Ryan Callahan, Marian Gaborik, John Tortorella, Derek Stepan, Ryan Callahan, Dan Girardi, Rick Nash, Ryan McDonagh and Alain Vigneault is over, put to a decisive and necessary end by the GM who looked at his team’s reflection in the mirror and saw a club receding by the year and in need of dramatic change.