Before the Rangers started practice Wednesday, ahead of their regular-season finale Thursday, Jimmy Vesey scanned the locker room and took a tally.
He thought he has played the fewest postseason games among his Rangers teammates, but he wasn’t sure.He knew everyone who played during the Rangers’ run to the Eastern Conference finals last season had logged 20, already more than him.But when he checked, Mikkola reminded him about his 16 with the Blues the past two seasons, and reality started to settle in.Their 21 skaters and goalies have appeared in 866 combined playoff games, but Vesey accounts for just 1.4 percent of that.
“For me, especially, the last couple of years, not knowing if I’d get a chance at it again, it’s exciting for me.” The following season, at the trade deadline, the Blueshirts dealt away Rick Nash and Ryan McDonagh and changed the direction of their franchise. The Rangers’ second consecutive appearance in the playoffs means something to everyone, head coach Gerard Gallant said, because it’s “not easy to make the playoffs anymore” — not even with 100 points.
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