After coming up short against the Los Angeles Kings in the Stanley Cup Final, the New York Rangers were given a chance to reflect and focus on the future. Months have passed since a dejected Henrik Lundqvist lay prone on the ice, and training camp is around the corner.
The makeup of the 2014-15 Rangers will be vastly different than the 2013-14 version, and every spot will have to be earned. This will be the case because general manager Glen Sather decided to go out and sign multiple players for a select amount of spots.
There are tons of players—both young and old—who will be fighting for their lives over the next two weeks, and when all is said and done, the Rangers will have the best possible roster made up of players under contract.
Heading into the summer, it was assumed that youngsters such as Oscar Lindberg, J.T. Miller, Jesper Fast and Danny Kristo, among others, would face minimal resistance once training camp rolled around in September.
That line of thinking was thrown out the window once Sather put ink to paper and acquired the signatures of Lee Stempniak, Ryan Malone, Matthew ...
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