New York Rangers: Five players with the most trade value

The New York Rangers have wrapped up their bye week and are heading into the second half of the season. The trade deadline is fast approaching and the Rangers need to sell, not buy.

Though it may be tempting to buy at the deadline, the New York Rangers need to sell. The front office may not know what the Rangers are, but the team’s play shows exactly what they are: mediocre. The team is in a limbo they know all too well; they are too good for the number one overall pick, yet too mediocre to win a Stanley Cup.

The Rangers have no real all-star outside of goalie Henrik Lundqvist. They have no pure goal scorer nor do they have a star defenseman to make Lundqvist’s job easier. In order to bolster their team, the Rangers need draft picks and prospects.

The Rangers are notorious for trading away their draft picks and prospects for aging veterans in hopes they will help to finally win the Stanley Cup. Seeing as the last time the Stanley Cup was seen in Madison Square Garden was 24 years ago, their plan has most certainly backfired. They are left with a barren prospect pool and went five years without a first round selection.

The Rangers need to start recouping what they’ve lost. Their carelessness with young players has put them in this position and now they need to use the players on their current roster to make their prospect pool flourish again.