Rangers, Maple Leafs Hover Over Offseason Blockbuster

The Rangers and Maple Leafs are once again circling each other in the way teams do when the phone lines get hot and the summer cap math starts to sting. Toronto has been in this kind of conversation before, and New York is not shy about chasing a move if it thinks the fit is real. There is enough smoke here to make rival executives pay attention, because when these two clubs start looking at the same chess board, somebody usually ends up with a hard decision.