
Rangers’ core has run its course as tough Jacob Trouba, Chris Kreider, Mika Zibanejad decisions loom
NY Post
It hurts because the Rangers came so far and came so close, but we all know that they really did not come that close at all.
That’s the crux of the matter following a series in which the Blueshirts were dominated in five of six games and were able to keep it respectable only because of Igor Shesterkin’s remarkable work in net.
That’s the truth that the hierarchy will be obligated to confront as soon as this week as president-GM Chris Drury and the staff plot their off-season course following one of the great regular seasons in franchise history.
Romance went out the window with the handshake line.

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.












