Rangers Tap Jay Leach To Run Hartford After Long Look

The Rangers have brought Jay Leach into the organization as the new coach in Hartford, and the backstory is the kind of front-office wrinkle teams never forget. Three years after asking for permission to speak with him about an NHL opening, New York finally gets him in the fold, just not in the chair people first imagined. That kind of delayed reunion usually says plenty about how a team views a coach behind the scenes. Hartford just became a more interesting place for the Rangers’ pipeline.