from Larry Brooks of the New York Post,

If the Rangers could somehow make the cap numbers work for next year, perhaps by bringing a third team (Arizona) into it, would you do whatever it takes to acquire Patrick Kane from the Blackhawks?

Would you get Kane if it cost you Kaapo Kakko (but not Alexis Lafreniere), Nils Lundqvist (or Zac Jones or Matthew Robertson but not Braden Schneider), Vitali Kravtsov (but not Will Cuylle or Brennan Othmann) and a 2022 first-rounder?

Would you go for it if you were general manager Chris Drury, knowing that acquiring Kane would give the Rangers a Super Line with one-time running mate and old BFF Artemi Panarin on the left and No. 10’s new BFF Ryan Strome in the middle?

Would you push your chips into the middle and go for it off of what you have seen through this getaway that hit a speed bump in Wednesday’s 7-3 defeat to the potent and dazzling Avalanche at the Garden in front of fourth-string goaltender Adam Huska in an effort that was not becoming of a 17-5-3 team.

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