We’re nearing the end for the 2017-18 Rangers, who have six games remaining following Monday’s match at the Garden against the Capitals. But the promotions of teen first-rounders Lias Andersson and Filip Chytil make this feel like more of a beginning for 2018-19.
Except, of course, for the one pesky detail of not knowing who will be behind the bench to direct the remodeled Blueshirts when this all gets underway again in September. Of not knowing what kind of system and philosophy the players we’re seeing — and, at least equally as important, draft candidates being watched by the scouting department — will be playing next season.