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Boo Nieves is not participating in Tuesday’s practice and there is concern that it is concussion-related, per the New York Post’s Larry Brooks. Nieves injured his head following a hit from New Jersey’s Eric Gryba in Monday night’s preseason game, and he did not return for
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I think philosophy is the most neglected subject matter in schools. Philosophy has many benefits, but a major one is that it opens up the mind to questioning. If one can get to a point in which he is comfortable questioning the most basic tenants we hold to be obvious
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The Rangers lost their final Traverse City Prospects Tournament game to St. Louis on Tuesday, 8-4. Filip Chytil, Lias Andersson, Brett Howden, and Libor Hajek all sat out. Presumably, the Rangers decided to rest all four, who had previously played three games in four days, knowing that they were going
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Rangers prospects got pummeled by Detroit in their third Traverse City game on Monday, losing 5-0. They got outshot 34-to-14, and to be blunt there were not many positive takeaways. Here are a few nonetheless. One thing that has been encouraging to see throughout the tournament is Chytil’s play
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The Rangers opened the Traverse City Prospects Tournament last night with a 7-5 loss to Dallas. The standout performance for the Rangers, in my eyes, was 2018 trading deadline acquisition Brett Howden. Collectively, his line with Ty Ronning and Tim Gettinger worked very well, moving the puck as a unit.
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The Traverse City Tournament begins tonight, and it is exciting for a number of reasons. One, it is the unofficial start of the hockey season. That would be great under any circumstances, but for Rangers fans it is a long time coming given that the season ended in early April
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The oases of hockey during the otherwise barren late summer weeks are the multiple international prospect tournaments. And while some of these games took place weeks ago, I felt it would be worth looking at how players did during this quiet point of the year. Nils Lundqvist (2018 first round)
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The New York Rangers have released their roster for the 2018 Traverse City Prospect Tournament. OFFICIAL: #NYR Traverse City Tournament roster features 24 prospects including Andersson and Chytil, who both finished the 2017-18 season with the Blueshirts. The roster also features 3 players acquired in February 2018 trades - Hajek,
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New York Rangers 2018 sixth-round pick Simon Kjellberg will be moving from Sweden to play for the Dubuque Fighting Saints of the United States Hockey League (USHL) for the 2018-2019 season, multiple sources confirmed to Blueshirt Banter. The presumptive path seems to be an eventual move to NCAA hockey, though
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Following the publishing of our 2018 New York Rangers Prospect Rankings, many of you had questions and comments. Here is my attempt at milking this content as much as I can because August is a void full of despair addressing some of the your thoughts. Maybe present your list in
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5. Nils Lundkvist, Right Defense 2017 Ranking: N/A Age: 18 Acquired Via: 2018 Draft (First Round) Here is what European Correspondent Tobias Pettersson wrote about Lundkvist for our Draft Profile back in June. We had him ranked as the 22nd-best prospect in the draft, and the Rangers selected him
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10. Alexandar Georgiev, Goaltender 2017 Ranking: 16 Age: 22 Acquired Via: Free Agency (2017) Perhaps no player in the organization improved over the course of the 2017-2018 season more than Alexandar Georgiev. After signing Georgiev out of Finland with the intention of making him the starting goaltender in Hartford, he