The Boston Bruins defeated the New York Ranger 7-4 yesterday.

from Larry Brooks of the New York Post,

It didn’t matter just which pair or what line David Quinn sent out to try and contend with Bergeron’s unit. Trouba was minus-three. Hajek, the rookie who’d been a bright spot, was minus-four. Bergeron recorded a hat trick, the final of his goals into an empty net. Marchand had two goals and three assists. Pastrnak had five assists.

The young team was bullied and exposed by a veteran team that has as good a chance as any team in the league to capture the Cup that got away last year after losing Game 7 at home to the Blues after having taken a 3-2 series lead in the final.

This is the state of the Rangers in this very early stage of the rebuild. And at this point, really, even if Zibanejad (“day-to-day”) is down for a while, you have to wonder whether it would be beneficial for Filip Chytil to be recalled and fill a top-six role here as opposed to remaining in Hartford, where the Wolf Pack are 8-0-0-1.

Because — and perhaps this is an overreaction to a bad, bad night on which a confluence of circumstances acted against the Rangers, but perhaps not — playing these kids against men could be detrimental to their mental health. And even if the Blueshirts could use help on the blue line, is this what you’d want to throw Ryan Lindgren into and expect him to succeed/develop? Here’s one: Kaapo Kakko, minus-four while looking out of place....

These are the Rangers, thin to begin with, young in critical spots, not particularly fast, not particularly rugged. This is the rebuild. This is the snapshot.

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