from Larry Brooks of the New York Post,

...Peter Laviolette surely will not expect Artemi Panarin to play the same way as Tyler Pitlick. But the Rangers’ incoming head coach will hold No. 10 to the same standards he will apply to the putative fourth-liner.

There’s not going to be one way for the elite and another for the common folk. There is, rather, going to be the Rangers Way.

“When it comes to a system, and it’s not always perfect with regard to the details of how that goes, but I do believe a team has to get on the same page,” Laviolette said Wednesday, a day in advance of the club’s first on-ice camp sessions. “That’s my job and responsibility to take a group that at the end of training camp we call the New York Rangers and get them on the same page.”

Asked a hypothetical about a player who might have a tendency to play on the perimeter rather than get in on the forecheck, Laviolette’s response left no room for interpretation.

“That guy will forecheck,” said this coach who believes in puck pursuit and puck pressure.

It’s Day 1 of 2023-24. You can be excused for rolling your eyes. Every incoming head coach pledges to put his stamp on his new team. Every one of them insists he will change the culture. Some do and most don’t.

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