GREENBURGH, N.Y. -- Mika Zibanejad and Mike Sullivan lunched together in Stockholm on a summer afternoon, getting to know one another while talking hockey, the future, their goals and more.

Later that evening, Zibanejad, the New York Rangers 32-year-old forward, had Sullivan, his new coach who flew across the Atlantic just to visit with him, over to his house for a barbecue, his best friend firing up the grill for a steak dinner.

"It was nice just to show him around a little bit in the city and then having him at our place it was calmer with no people around," Zibanejad said. "Got the time, especially with him being there literally for the day. It was a good conversation and a good start."

Sullivan's visit to Stockholm to spend a day with Zibanejad not long after he was hired on May

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