Gerard Gallant’s turnaround touch has the Rangers on a path toward a playoff return — and maybe more

Gerard Gallant has the Rangers on the prime of the Metropolitan Division.
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The Knicks lastly put an finish to a prolonged postseason drought final spring, and their co-tenants at Madison Sq. Backyard are poised to do the identical in 2022.

The Rangers sit atop the Metropolitan Division coming into a key five-game highway journey starting Thursday night time in Vegas. It should mark the primary journey again to Sin Metropolis with one other workforce for Rangers coach Gerard Gallant since he was dumped by the Golden Knights in January 2020.

The Rangers’ enchancment of their preliminary season beneath Gallant’s tutelage has been according to earlier teaching stops throughout his profession, most notably fronting expansion-year Vegas to the Stanley Cup Remaining in 2018. He led VGK to the playoffs once more the next season, albeit struggling a first-round loss to San Jose earlier than getting axed with a 24-19-6 mark in 2019-20.