New York’s former first-round picks have yet to arrive as NHL stars.
The New York Rangers will go into 2023-2024 with plenty of questions about their future. Chris Kreider, Artemi Panarin, and Mika Zibanejad are all over 30 and any given season could be their last as a contending team. Former first-rounders Filip Chytil, Kaapo Kakko, and Alexis Lafreniere have been deployed as a unit for over a season, but need to bring their game to a new level to extend New York’s title window.
I’m very curious to see how Peter Laviolette organizes things. Gerard Gallant obviously went with those two and Filip Chytil, the Kid Line, as a secondary-scoring line. Something tells me Laviolette may want them to be more of a checking line or a matchups line. Gallant wasn’t much of a matchups guy. The Rangers need more of that.
I’m not so sure how sold I was on the Kid Line. They bled scoring chances at times; it’s probably time to see if they can make it separately. It’s up to them to do something with that opportunity and prove they can be top-six contributors, Lafreniere and Kakko in particular. I’m very curious to see what Peter Laviolette can get out of them, especially Alexis Lafreniere. There are a lot of eyeballs on them this upcoming season, and the onus is on Laviolette to find out what kind of player he is. The leash is definitely getting shorter and shorter every season.
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