{"id":980017,"date":"2026-08-04T12:06:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T12:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/980017\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T12:06:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T12:06:16","slug":"rangers-mailbag-offseason-grade-matt-rempes-future-new-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/980017\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers mailbag: Offseason grade, Matt Rempe&#8217;s future, new blood?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rangers enter the 2026-27 season as one of the NHL\u2019s greatest enigmas.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a team just two years removed from the franchise\u2019s best regular-season campaign, which fizzled out two wins shy of a Stanley Cup Final berth. They still have arguably the best goaltender in the NHL in Igor Shesterkin, a Norris Trophy winner in Adam Fox and a top-tier two-way center in Mika Zibanejad.<\/p>\n<p>Over those two years, though, the Blueshirts completely lost themselves and were <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/07\/02\/sports\/chris-drury-committed-to-competing-again-while-insisting-rangers-retool-is-not-a-rebuild\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">forced to recalibrate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>President and general manager Chris Drury proclaimed a new direction and has, in fact, redirected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rangers enter the 2026-27 season as one of the NHL\u2019s greatest enigmas. Here\u2019s a team just two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":980018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[42],"tags":[13725,56603,137467,1302,293,2229,62,2225,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-980017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-chris-drury","tag-inside-the-rangers","tag-matt-rempe","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl","tag-post-sports-newsletters","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117037157282031015","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/980018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}