There’s one place Rangers’ far-ranging coaching search won’t go

It feels as if we had been doing postmortems on the season months ahead of Monday’s breakup day ritual in which the Rangers attempted to sort out what had gone so horribly awry this time around. 

Of course, that did not include Peter Laviolette, dismissed as head coach on Saturday after two years on the job the way that Gerard Gallant was dismissed in 2023 after two years on the job and the way that David Quinn was dismissed after three years on the job in 2021. 

“It’s hard not to look at us as players and [ask] why is that happening?” Adam Fox said. “We seem to have a lot of success and then, I don’t know, I don’t think at any point we didn’t like Lavvy or thought that his message was not getting through, but it seemed like execution of it was not there.