
Mika Zibanejad is aware of his Rangers crossroads after disappointing season
NY Post
Mika Zibanejad didn’t have to actually say it; anyone who was around him during the 2024-25 season already knows.
There was a heaviness to Zibanejad’s presence from the beginning of the year.
It only seemed to pile on more weight as each game went by without a sign of the defensively gifted and offensively dynamic No. 1 center the Rangers had come to know since he came to the organization in July 2016.
“I feel like mentally, what I went through the first few months was probably the toughest I’ve ever been through in my career,” Zibanejad said during the Rangers’ breakup day earlier this week.

Suddenly, someone had hit a rewind button and everyone had been transported back seven months. It was early spring instead of late fall, it was broiling hot outside the arena walls and not freezing cold. Everyone was back at TD Garden. There were 19,156 frenzied fans on their feet begging for blood, poised for the kill.












