Largely the same Rangers defense corps is primed for another season together. Still, the beginning of this offseason teased possible changes.
Largely the same Rangers defense corps is primed for another season together with five of six members set to return, as has repeatedly been the case in recent years.
Despite the similarities to the past few seasons, there are decisions — regarding both personnel and alignment — to be made on defense. The first question has been asked for many summers now with just a new name in place of Gustafsson’s each year.Though there’s still time left in the offseason, this may be the first summer president/GM Chris Drury didn’t bring in a new defenseman to step directly in front of Zac Jones on the depth chart.
Training camp will see Jones and Ruhwedel headline the 6D battle — with Ben Harpur, Connor Mackey and Brandon Scanlin very loosely in the mix. The positive is that Laviolette has seen a lot of the different pairings because of all the defensive injuries last season. Going from 3.01 goals-against per 60 in 2022-23 to 2.56 in 2023-24 — albeit in less ice time, according to Natural Stat Trick — the duo continued to take on tough assignments.When Trouba missed 11 games in March because of a partially broken ankle, however, Miller teamed up with Schneider, and the youngsters made it difficult to separate them again.
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