Wes Goldstein at CBS Sportsline wonders how the Rangers chemistry will play out this season in his "NHL Burning Questions"...New York Rangers: How will a chemistry 101 experiment play on Broadway? The Rangers reverted to old habits in the summer of 2007 when they opened up the check books for free agents Scott Gomez and Chris Drury, adding them to a lineup that included several young players and a veteran pack led by Jaromir Jagr and Brendan Shanahan. But the puzzle pieces had to be forced into place and barely made it to the playoffs. So GM Glen Sather went back to the drawing board, moving out Jagr, Sean Avery, Martin Straka, Marek Malik and, as of now, Shahanan, while spending some pretty big dollars again on free agents like Markus Naslund and Wade Redden, veteran players who have each been in rebound mode for at least two seasons. There were a few trades thrown in as well, which means the Rangers will have at least a half dozen new faces and a lot less Czech spoken in the dressing room.
...so far so good as the new players seem to be integrating themselves very well. Especially Zherdev and Naslund with Gomez.
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