Evan Vitale, a huge fan of the New York Rangers, provides his predictions for what Rangers fans can expect from the team in the coming 2015 NHL season.

1. How Good Will the Rangers
Be?
By Evan Vitale

2. the coveted Stanley Cup above their heads and brought it back

3. Sadly, the LA Kings took the trophy all the way to the
West Coast.

4. What can New York fans expect from the coming
season? Can they repeat their incredible run to the
playoffs?

5. The Rangers will almost certainly remain strong
contenders for the cup as many of their star players,
including Rick Nash, Ryan McDonagh, Martin St.
Louis, and of course, the indefatigable Henrik
Lundqvist will be returning to the squad for another
season.

6. The difficulties will now lie in who the
supporting players will be.

7. During the off-season, Derek Dorsett was traded,
Anton Stralman, Brian Boyle and Benoit Pouliot signed
with other teams and Brad Richards was bought
outright.

8. This leaves many holes to fill for the Rangers
management team, especially considering the teams
propensity to play four lines throughout most games.

9. Who would the managers pick?

10. They want to maintain their quickness on the ice but with
so many players leaving, that could prove to be a tall
order.

11. The Rangers eventually decided to pick up about
seven new faces during the off season spending
close to their 17 million dollar cap.

12. This means that the team will be inexperienced, but with
that amount of money and the smart scouting the
Rangers have shown these past couple seasons, the
young players will be skilled.

13. The coaches and staff agree; Jeff Gorton, the
assistant general manager remarked, “The thing
that’s most exciting is we’re still a relatively young
team.”

14. The Rangers will have to do some work early in the
season testing out different combinations of lines to
see what is best.

15. But, despite a few predictable growing pains early in
the season, the Rangers should be poised to make
another great run in the National Hockey League.

16. Maybe hoping for the cup to
come home to New York in
2015 is not such a distant
dream after all!

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