It was Lou Lamoriello, then my boss when we worked for the Devils and now the general manager of the Maple Leafs team the Rangers face Friday night at the Garden, who counseled by offering this adage from time to time: “Your greatest strength can be your greatest weakness.”
Lamoriello had — and I imagine, still has — many adages at his disposal. But this one applies to the Blueshirts. For while it is indisputably true that the Rangers’ strength rests with their depth and concept of team, it is concurrently their weakness as a putative contender that they don’t have a legitimate game-breaker among them.