# @puckempire on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DAePI9wSurK
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/23632922-puckempire-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-09-28T19:24:12.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Puck Empire 👑 (@puckempire) — https://gondola.cc/puckempire

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Continuing on with our season projections, we've got the New York Rangers at #6, and atop the Metro.

The Rangers continue to look like a strong East contender. We've finally seen Alexis Lafreniere take the strides towards being a legitimate first-liner, and the team added Reilly Smith to an already good forward core as well. Obviously this team has their struggles in the postseason, but they are a known good regular season team and that won't change, especially with this offense.

Defensively, New York as a top-3 defenseman in Adam Fox headlining the blue-line, and the rest of the D-core supporting cast is good as well. Jacob Trouba is overpaid, but he's a good #4D option, which is what his role is on this NY team.

In net, New York has a top-3 goaltender in Igor Shesterkin as well, and Jonathan Quick proved to be a reliable backup last season. Should be no issues there.

Overall, I don't know if this is the New York team that has what it takes to win a cup, but as I said, there's no doubts from me that they'll be one of the best Eastern Conference teams this season.

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