It is naïve to believe that the dynamic won’t change when a team president is hired to replace Glen Sather and puts his own stamp on the franchise and the rebuild process that is only 13-plus months old. For now, though, business will proceed unimpeded with general manager Jeff Gorton seeking to “speed that up” this summer.

“I like to think we’re in a good spot and headed in the right direction,” Gorton said after conducting exit meetings with his players at the practice facility at this most early breakup day. “I think we’re on target. As far as the timeline, we’ll let that play itself out. There’s a lot that can happen this summer that can speed that up.

“We’re at a place where you have to look at everything. Whether it’s the free-agent market or the trade market, or how we do things at the draft, we’ll look at all those things and I think we’ll do everything we can to try and advance it.”

Only potential tampering penalties prevented Gorton from shouting out the name “Artemi Panarin,” the impending free-agent winger from Columbus who will be the Blueshirts’ primary target on July 1 and who can be expected to command at least $11 million per season on a seven-year deal.

And likely that only the same threat of penalty kept Gorton from blurting out “Kevin Hayes,” the center who could well be in line for a free-agent return to New York if the numbers align.

Be sure of this: No one expects the process to speed up with sophomores Filip Chytil, Brett Howden and Lias Andersson lining up down the middle behind legit No. 1 Mika Zibanejad.

Throwing money at Panarin does not guarantee that he will accept. Florida, long expected to be a major bidder in the auction, not only has the beach, the weather and no state tax to offer, the Panthers may be on the verge of hiring Joel Quenneville, who coached Panarin in his first two years in the league with Chicago and was livid when informed the Breadman had been traded to Columbus for Brandon Saad.

Before Panarin, though, Gorton and the powers that be will have to declare one way or the other on Chris Kreider, a formidable veteran presence in the room who scored 24 goals over the first 52 games and finished with 28. The Rangers were tied for the eighth-lowest scoring team in the league, so Kreider’s production is not easily dismissed.

But Kreider is poised to enter the final year of his contract and is eligible for a contract extension come July 1. If management does not believe Kreider is consistently dependable enough to merit a deal that would likely come in at six years for around $6.5 million per year and take Kreider through his age 34 season, then it is incumbent upon Gorton to move the winger prior to the draft instead of bringing him back as a rental property waiting to be traded at the deadline.

The guillotine hanging over Mats Zuccarello’s head destroyed the first three months of his season. Trading both Zuccarello and fellow pending free agent Hayes for futures demoralized the team. The aftereffects were evident for weeks. Doing it last year with Rick Nash was unavoidable, doing it this year was probably necessary, but doing it again next year will be one time too many.

Let’s say the Rangers keep Kreider. Let’s say Hayes, who could send his price soaring with a strong tournament for Winnipeg, wants to return badly enough that he’s willing to re-up for five years at around $6 million per year. And let’s say Panarin is willing to take the Blueshirts’ money.

Well, unless the Blueshirts are able to trim significant salary otherwise, there would be essentially no way to improve the defense, a much more pressing issue than bolstering the wing. No way to trade, say, for Jacob Trouba. That could only be done either through trades or buyouts of Kevin Shattenkirk and/or Brendan Smith and likely trades of Vladislav Namestnikov and/or Jimmy Vesey.

Accelerating this thing is not going to be easy.

The Rangers weren’t even 24 hours away from the end of their season when they broke up on Sunday, saying goodbye just when it was time to say hello to the playoffs. There was some talk about how the Blueshirts could be even a younger group in Year 2 under David Quinn, but that would surprise me.

It is quite possible the Rangers determine the best way of advancing the process is to allow the youngsters to marinate and enjoy success as a group at Hartford rather than fast-tracking them into the NHL. That likely will become a decision influenced heavily by the new president. There will be many decisions influenced heavily by the new president.