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Chris Drury sent the 12th overall pick in the 2025 NHL Draft to the Pittsburgh Penguins, completing the deal for JT Miller, which happened on January 31st of this year. Now, it appears he’s sending the New York Rangers a message.
The New York Rangers will not be drafting in the first round of the 2025 NHL Draft. Gone are the chances to select a player who could restock the team’s prospect pipeline.
Instead, GM Chris Drury has sent a clear message after completing the trade with the Vancouver Canucks: we have high expectations of you next year.
The team finished 5th in the Metropolitan Division, which saw a fallout that resulted in the firing of Peter Laviolette.
It was a sign that the group wasn’t good enough, and the portents should’ve been seen a mile away: a retool is on the horizon.
While some people believe that Chris Drury is at fault for the last three years for the team’s inability to be successful in key moments of the season, he would remain GM after he was given a multi-year extension by the team.
The expectations are high for the New York Rangers as a whole, but it seems like it’s an awfully one-sided relationship with the team.
After a 39-36-7 season, the expectations for the Rangers are higher than ever, and it’s a shared failure between Drury and the team, in our opinion.
Only Laviolette left a scapegoat.
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