
Rangers not used to having trade deadline chatter surround them
NY Post
RALEIGH, N.C. — The benefit of having a core of players who have played together for so long is that they’ve shared so many different experiences they can collectively lean on.
It has been quite some time since the Rangers have been disrupted midseason by trade chatter involving major players in their own room, but the team has had its fair share of tough stretches over the years.
Last season, it was essentially the entire month of January.
The Rangers went from only dropping back-to-back games once through the first three months of the season to a four-game losing streak with two other sets of consecutive defeats in January.
Their record that month was 4-7-2.
After winning their final game before the All-Star break, however, the Rangers went on a 10-game win streak on their way to capturing the Presidents’ Trophy.

The preferred path to follow remains in place: Select a quarterback with the No. 3 pick in the draft. That is what the Giants hope will happen. When it comes to identifying and securing a franchise-saving player, though, hope is not a good thing, maybe the worst of things — with apologies to Andy Dufresne.