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Blueshirts Breakaway: A show about the New York Rangers

The Flying V: EP 13 - The Fault In Our Stars with The Athletic's Arpon Basu

Blueshirts Breakaway: A show about the New York Rangers

Ryan Mead and Greg Kaplan

Sports News, News, Sports, Hockey

4.5686 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Latest episode of the Flying V is up! This week, Vince Mercogliano dives deep into the tailspin that has eaten the Rangers season alive and investigates the emotional toll the losing is having on the room. Plus, The Athletic's Arpon Basu joins the show to talk about life north of the border with the Montreal Canadiens, including their unique rebuild, the importance of player development, and the Jeff Gorton Effect. Then, answers to listener questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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Visit Slack.com forward slash meet Slackbot to learn more. What is happening New York Rangers fans and welcome to episode 13 of the Flying V podcast.

0:55.6

I'm your host, Vincent Mercogliano, of The Athletic.

1:00.4

And boy, oh boy, is this going to be a pretty somber episode?

1:05.7

We have a lot to discuss.

1:07.9

It has been an extremely discouraging week for the Rangers who at this point,

1:14.9

there's no hiding from the fact. There's no skirting this. There's no way around it. They are

1:20.4

very much looking down the barrel of what will have to be at least some level of rebuild.

1:26.5

This team is falling apart in front of our eyes, and there's a lot for us to unpack.

1:32.8

Now, quickly at the top, let me mention our guest this week, another one of my very talented

1:38.5

colleagues at the athletic Arpin Basu, who covers the Canadians for us. He is coming on in the middle of this

1:48.0

episode to discuss exactly what that rebuild might look like. It actually caught my eye

1:54.1

earlier this week while I was working on a story of my own examining what the Rangers might

2:00.7

have to do to rip this band-aid off

2:02.7

and looking at some examples of other teams around the league that have gone through a similar

2:07.1

process in recent years. Well, Arpin and my other colleague, Max Bolton, who covers the Detroit

2:13.4

Red Wings, wrote a story about basically what those teams had to do over time to build themselves

2:19.0

back up.

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