After all, literally, the Rangers are in a much better position than they were when the sun came up on Friday.
The Blueshirts are swimming in cap space after trading Jacob Trouba to Anaheim, ending a difficult chapter in the lame duck captain's career. They locked up franchise goaltender Igor Shesterkin on an eight-year extension with a perfectly fair $11.5 million hit cap hit. They now come within two points of beating the Penguins 4-2 at the Garden in their most disciplined performance in recent weeks.
There's no doubt that the trauma of effectively sending Trouba off by threatening to put him on waivers if he didn't accept a trade for an alternative option that was offered to him was undoubtedly traumatic.
The story of how this event unfolded has been told and retold here, and I know that I have become an important part of that story, and for that reason it is true that Tolva's life I am sorry that this has had such a serious impact on you. But I don't regret doing my job.
