Uncertainty Growing for the Rangers After Expensive Off-Season

Mika Zibanejad celebrates a Rangers goal

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The New York Rangers are facing more questions than answers following a summer of multiple changes as they head into the new season with a new coach.

Things are looking much different for the New York Rangers as the new year approaches thanks to multiple changes during the summer.

Immediately after the season ended without a playoff spot, GM Chris Drury fired coach Peter Laviolette after only 2 years on the job and hired former Penguins coach Mike Sullivan, who had also been recently let go himself.

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Chris Kreider was traded on June 12. K’Andre Miller was traded on July 1. Earlier that same day, the Blueshirts signed free agent defenseman Vladislav Gavrikov out of Los Angeles for seven years at an AAV of $7 million to team with Adam Fox on the first pair. The organization has pretty much been in a holding pattern since then.
Brooks also raised questions on whether the replacement of Laviolette by Sullivan would be adequate, how Gavrikov would fare replacing Miller on defense, and if Igor Shesterkin can bounce back from a subpar year in the 1st year of his major new contract extension.

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It won’t be long before the Rangers rookies face the rookies from the divisional foe Philadelphia Flyers in a pair of games in Allentown, PA.

Perhaps the biggest storyline for the Rangers this year will be how Sullivan adjusts to a new environment after nearly 10 years with the Penguins, during which he won the Stanley Cup twice.

Additionally, the Rangers start a new era without Chris Kreider, and they also don’t have a captain following the controversial trade of Jacob Trouba to the Ducks last year.

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