NHL.com is providing in-depth roster, prospect and fantasy analysis for each of its 32 teams from Aug. 1-Sept. 1. Today, the New York Rangers.

Mike Sullivan has been spending his first offseason as New York Rangers coach getting to know the players on a personal level and watching games from last season to gain a deeper understanding of what he is inheriting.

What he has learned has bolstered what he already knew.

"I've certainly coached against them for a number of years," Sullivan told NHL.com. "I've always had just a ton of respect for how talented this group of players is and what they've accomplished with this core over the last half a dozen years or so. We're not unlike any other organization in the League where the challenge is to become a team because talent alone doesn't win, a

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