Rangers president and general manager Chris Drury had no interest in starting the season without a captain.

It is not lost on anyone in the NHL that it’s been 53 years since a team without a captain won the Stanley Cup. Especially not Drury, who enjoyed a 12-year career as a player before he joined the Rangers front office in 2015-16.

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In what new head coach Mike Sullivan described as an “extensive process,” as well as in collaboration with the leadership group, the Rangers landed on J.T. Miller as their 29th captain.

“Well, I played a long time. Mike’s played a long time,” Drury sai

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