Here's another job that wasn't supposed to be available.

Gerard Gallant took over the New York Rangers prior to the 2021-22 season and proceeded to win 52 games, place second in the Metropolitan Division and engineer a playoff run that got the team six games deep into the postseason final four.

So, when he returned for the 2022-23 season and GM Chris Drury added Patrick Kane and Vladimir Tarasenko to the arsenal at trade-deadline time, it seemed a run of equal or even longer duration was a mere formality.

Until it wasn't.

Instead, the Rangers self-destructed after opening the playoffs with consecutive road wins, ultimately losing four of the next five to the New Jersey Devils—including a 4-0 blanking in Game 7—to end the run before it started and trigger Gallant's sudden dismissal.

Both Kane and Tarasenko are on the verge of free agency and neither is a lock to return, but the New York roster still boasts an embarrassment of veteran talent riches in the form of Artemi Panarin, Mika Zibanejad and Chris Kreider up front, ex-Norris winner Adam Fox on the blue line and former Vezina winner Igor Shesterkin in goal.

The New York media is no picnic and the fanbase will be starved as the 30th anniversary of the last Stanley Cup win at Madison Square Garden approaches, but there's no job opening that would put its new occupant any closer to a would-be hoist.