from Larry Brooks of the New York Post,

This is the type of trade a team makes either if it is one piece away from winning a championship, or its management doesn’t place a premium on keeping its draft picks.

This is the type of trade the Rangers made on Wednesday, when they dealt the past and the future for the present in sending one first-rounder, one second-rounder that could become a first, and the remainder of Ryan Callahan’s season to Tampa Bay in exchange for 38-year-old Martin St. Louis — a dynamic, game-changing goal-scorer who, by the way, did we mention, is 38 years old?

General manager Glen Sather is all-in again on this season, maybe this year and next, with a flawed team that doesn’t appear big enough, tough enough or deep enough to take out the Bruins, even if the Rangers are likely a tougher out in the playoffs — if they get there — than they were before pulling off this trade.

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