Watching a New York Rangers rebuild is like watching someone learning how to drive. You know at some point there's going to be an aggressive acceleration, and you're just hoping it's not before they figured out how to work the steering wheel.
Hence, the departure of general manager Jeff Gorton this week, for apparently results-oriented reasons, should have Rangers fans shook.
The current rebuild began on Feb. 8, 2018. Long before the Rangers were famous for letters in which they demanded firings from the NHL's Department of Player Safety, they were famous for a letter that foreshadowed a different kind of pain.