from Larry Brooks of the New York Post,

A scapegoat, no, because others including Big Game Derick Brassard were also nowhere to be found on Friday, but where do the Rangers go from here with Nash, who has a limited no-trade clause and carries a $7.8 million cap hit through 2017-18?

If general manager Glen Sather — there is no indication he is thinking of stepping down or up, though that doesn’t mean it would be out of the question — and the staff believe that no more is required than some tweaking on the margins, then the Rangers go into next season with Nash as their first-line left wing with Brassard and Mats Zuccarello, presuming the Norwegian is cleared to play.

But if there is a belief that something more is required, then the Rangers would be wise to look at St. Louis, where coach Ken Hitchcock is an unabashed fan of No. 61, and the Blues are in desperate need of changing their own postseason narrative.

In order to make any sense at all for the Rangers, for whom Nash has scored 15.1 percent of the team’s regular-season goals since putting on the Blueshirt and whose 42 this year were twice as many as co-runners up Chris Kreider and Marty St. Louis produced, the conversation on a return package would have to feature T.J. Oshie, Jaden Schwartz and Alexander Steen.

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