from Mollie Walker of the New York Post,

The stars had to align for this to happen.

Patrick Kane does not become a New York Ranger for a few draft picks and a prospect in a three-team trade for financial purposes if things didn’t fall into place the way that they did.

From the Feb. 8, 2018 rebuilding notice signed by Rangers management, the club’s conference final run last season and the shackling no-move clause Chicago’s former general manager Stan Bowman agreed to on Kane’s eight-year, $84 million deal on July 9, 2014, all played an integral part in what will transpire at Madison Square Garden on Thursday night.

That’s when the longtime Blackhawks star will take the ice and become the Rangers Grandeur.

Already a team composed of some of the flashiest players in all of the NHL, the Rangers will now dress a lineup that inspires shock and awe from top to bottom. An alignment that seemingly could only be designed in franchise mode of EA Sports’ NHL video game. Kane doesn’t just fill a hole in the top-six, he is said to be capable of enhancing it all.

“There probably wasn’t another situation where we would have pushed the limits,” Rangers president and general manager Chris Drury said on a conference call with reporters after the deal became official Tuesday night. “But to get a Patrick Kane, you don’t get an opportunity like that very often.”

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