{"id":412073,"date":"2026-01-17T04:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T04:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/412073\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T04:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T04:30:13","slug":"the-next-steps-for-the-rangers-are-crucial-and-chris-drury-must-heed-lessons-from-last-retool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/412073\/","title":{"rendered":"The next steps for the Rangers are crucial \u2014 and Chris Drury must heed lessons from last \u2018retool\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rangers president and general manager Chris Drury made his intentions known to the team, the fan base and the rest of the National Hockey League on Friday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/16\/sports\/chris-drury-promises-retool-for-rangers-in-latest-letter-to-fans\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">preferred term might be \u201cretool\u201d over \u201crebuild,\u201d<\/a> but the organization has come to terms with its reality and declared as much in a 300-plus word statement released before the team headed to Philadelphia for the start of a four-game road trip.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sitting in the basement of the Eastern Conference, the Blueshirts are taking the evaluation period at face value.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not going to stand pat \u2014 a shift will give us the ability to be smart and opportunistic as we retool the team,\u201d Drury\u2019s statement read. \u201cThis will not be a rebuild. This will be a retool built around our core players and prospects. We will target players that bring tenacity, skill, speed and a winning pedigree with a focus on obtaining young players, draft picks and cap space to allow us flexibility moving forward.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rangers president and general manager Chris Drury made his intentions known to the team, the fan base and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5111],"tags":[337,5,3328,35,5190,5193,4,36,43,350,336],"class_list":{"0":"post-412073","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-rangers","8":"tag-chris-drury","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-rangers","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkrangers","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-rangers","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-sports-columnists","18":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115908563905283464","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}