"This is a very close league. It’s a very humbling league. We’re not going into the league of 15 years ago, when the average age [of the players] was way up there, [and we have] a bunch of 19-year-olds. This league’s young.

“So, I mean, playoffs is a goal, for sure. But there’s got to be improvement, the right way, that you can count on long term, to get something with gratification out of the season.”

-John Davidson, president of the New York Rangers. Brett Cyrglis of the New York Post has more on the Rangers.