Regarding the Rangers, who somehow have come through this week intact ahead of Friday’s Garden match against the Penguins:

1. Among other issues, this is one of the most vanilla teams I have ever been around. The team has essentially no personality. Playing against them is kind of like a day in the park.

It kind of reminds me of the 2006-07 Rangers … before Sean Avery came to town and changed pretty much everything about that.

The most confounding aspect of the year is the organizational denial of the impact Matt Rempe had on the Rangers — not in 2006-07 but last year.