Mark my words. Or don’t…

Come two to three months in, as during last season, the Rangers will want for a defenseman that plays the body first and the puck second, inspires a little honest fear in the heart of opposing teams’ forwards lest they get a little too comfortable camped out in front of Henrik, and judiciously applies a few bruises to these same offenders.

Strudwick won’t do that, Pock won’t, and Staal won’t either.

Cap or no cap, Renney/Slather — no disrespect intended toward Tom by that grouping — should of found a math to allow for Kasparaitus’s return to Broadway.

One can only now hope, for Kaspar’s sake, that a team in need picks him up; yes, not easy, given his price tag vis a vis the realities of the cap. But this athlete deserves an opportunity better than Hartford.