It’s been a long summer for the Rangers, but it’s finally over. Training camp opens on Thursday, and that’s when new coach Mike Sullivan and the team can get started putting the disappointing 2024-25 season behind them and resume their quest to win the Stanley Cup for the first time since 1994.
Of course, after missing the playoffs, trying to rebuild the roster on the fly and firing coach Peter Laviolette after only two seasons, general manager Chris Drury’s group doesn’t look as close to doing that as they did a year ago.
Last year, they were coming off a six-game loss to the eventual champion Florida Panthers in the Eastern Conference Final. Now there are questions to answer and more than a few players who need to prove they are better than what they showed last season if this team