Over the past few years, “rebuilding on the fly” hasn’t seemed to work for the New York Rangers. Around the trade deadline last year, when they began to swap bigger pieces for prospects with potential and high draft picks, it became evident that the club was planning on executing something closer to a full rebuild.
Their forward group is definitely getting younger, with the addition of talented new faces like Filip Chytil and Lias Andersson. The Rangers have also been able to drop some forwards that were dragging them down and upgrade a bit, like exchanging Ryan Spooner for Ryan Strome in a deal with the Edmonton Oilers.