If Rempe can’t get the call against a heavy Capitals team, the question mark hovering over his role on the Rangers just became a little bigger.

No cutesy phrase or inspirational rallying cry is going to be the difference for this team as it embarks on a consequential season.

The competitions that defined training camp all came into focus Sunday.

To say Gavrikov’s first season with the Rangers didn’t go the way he imagined would be a colossal understatement.