There’s still more than three weeks until the trade deadline, but the Rangers decided not to wait until the last minute, trading for the Blues’ Vladimir Tarasenko, who will be an unrestricted free agent at the end of the season.

The Rangers sent Sammy Blais, Hunter Skinner, a conditional first-round pick an a conditional fourth-round pick to the Blues in exchange for Tarasenko and Niko Mikkola with the Blues also retaining 50 percent of Tarasenko’s cap hit.

There isn’t a single negative to the trade for the Rangers. It’s an unbelievable job by Chris Drury.

In what was the most exciting and entertaining game of the season, the Rangers beat the Flames 5-4 in overtime at the Garden. It may not have been the Rangers’ best performance, but the game had everything coming off a 10-day layoff, and that included Jacob Trouba having to defend himself after two more clean open-ice hits.

After having their recent four-game winning streak end, the Rangers have put together a new and current three-game winning streak. The first seven weeks of the season have been full of wins.

Brian Monzo joined me to talk about the Rangers’ impressive first quarter of the season, noticeable differences between Gerard Gallant and David Quinn, realistic expectations for Alexis Lafreniere and Kaapo Kakko this season and what to do with Alexander Georgiev.

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The Rangers routed the Flyers 9-0 on Wednesday and they did so without David Quinn and his entire coaching staff. What does the Rangers putting together their best performance of the season without their head coach say about their head coach?

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