The New York Rangers have become quite a fascinating team in the past few months.
The state of affairs in Manhattan seemed to be all fine and dandy for the Rangers during the 2021 season — they’d just landed Alexis Lafreniere after winning the first pick in the 2020 NHL Entry Draft, Igor Shesterkin had fully taken the reins in the crease, not to mention the one-two punch of Artemi Panarin and Mika Zibanejad.
But a rather meaningless game against the Washington Capitals on May 3, 2021 ended up having a ripple effect across the entire organization.