Rangers Looking for More Offense

In NHL.com's 20th installment of their 30 Teams in 30 Days feature they focus on the Rangers and their off-season dedicated to finding offense...

"It certainly will be an interesting mix for the Rangers in 2009-10. Of last season's top six scorers, only team captain Chris Drury, who was third with 56 points, currently is under contract. Leading scorer Nik Antropov left for Atlanta, Scott Gomez was dealt to Montreal, Markus Naslund retired and Nikolai Zherdev became an unrestricted free agent after the club lost his arbitration hearing and opted to walk away from the one-year, $3.9 million deal the player was awarded. Brandon Dubinsky is a restricted free agent, but likely will get a new contract.

To spark the up-tempo offense Tortorella favors, the Rangers spent big for free agent forward Marian Gaborik. The Slovakian right wing has been better than a point-per-game player each of the last four seasons, but he's played just 207 of a possible 328 games in that span."

...i think by adding Gaborik, Kotalik, Higgins and Prospal the Rangers have addressed their need for offense up-front. The issue now is trying to get something offensively from the backline.

In addition to the above feature, there is a story by Adam Kimelman on Tortorella changing the culture with the Rangers as well as a number of Ranger videos on the NHL.com homepage.