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Maybe Ryan Reaves will be the exception. Maybe No. 75, who arrives with a dollop of gravitas and a heaping of charisma, will be the exception to the rule.

Maybe he will be the one to disprove the proverb, “Old fighters never disappear, they just fade away to the Rangers.”

Maybe the 34-year-old Reaves will be the one to alter the pattern of similarly advanced-age alleged Rangers enforcers, such as Donald Brashear, Derek Boogaard, John Scott and Cody McLeod.