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The New York Rangers will formally retire Jean Ratelle’s #19 on February 25th prior to the team’s game against the Detroit Red Wings, the Rangers announced. President Glen Sather spoke about Ratelle via the team’s press release: "Jean Ratelle is truly one of the greatest players
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There are a lot of things I enjoy about European hockey. Maybe my favorite aspect of it is that meaningful games start in mid-August; weeks before NHL training camp even opens. After sitting for SKA’s first two regular season games, top goalie prospect Igor Shestyorkin took the net against
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Free-agent center Alex Kerfoot has signed with the Colorado Avalanche, as first reported by TSN’s Darren Dreger. Told Joe Sakic did a great job selling Kerfoot on his fit with the Avs. With trades likely, his role could be significant in near future. https://t.co/WSylXhgqcv — Darren Dreger
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The World Junior Summer Showcase is a tournament that took place from July 28th through August 5th, giving countries a chance to evaluate a number of players in preparation for the U20 World Junior Championship that begins in December. The Rangers had three prospects participate in the tournament: Sean Day
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I would like to do a prospect/rankings mailbag at the end of the week. Please submit any questions you might have in the comments section (or on Twitter) and I will try to use as many as possible for the article. Also, I would like to give a massive
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10. Tyler Wall, Goaltender, 19 Years Old, Sixth-Round Pick (2016) Previous Rank: 20 Earlier in these rankings, I discussed how playing at a lower level in his pre-draft year might have left 2017 6th-round pick Morgan Barron underexposed. The Rangers are currently reaping the rewards of a similar situation with
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15. Tim Gettinger, Center/Left Wing, 19 Years Old, Fifth-Round Pick (2016) Previous Rank: 17 Gettinger’s rank does not do justice to the season that he had. Yes, going to 15 from 17 is a slight bump, but the radical facelift to the prospect pool prevented a major rise
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20. Adam Tambellini, Center, 22 Years Old, Third-Round Pick (2013) Previous Rank: 11 All things considered, Tambellini definitely showed progress last season. Hartford’s struggles did hurt him in some ways; he was burdened with a dependency he couldn’t really match. On the other hand, the lack of anyone
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So here’s the deal. The first article was supposed to be players ranked 38 through 31. That would have set up five players per article the rest of the way. However, I accidentally added in 30 as well. As a result, the numbers are skewed. So, I am only
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29. Sergey Zborovskiy, Defenseman, 20 Years Old, Third-Round Pick (2015) Previous Rank: 28 At face value, it appears that Zborovskiy improved significantly this past season. He produced 40 points in 63 WHL games after hitting only 25 the year before. In particular, he improved his assist total by 16. Big
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38. Adam Chapie, Forward, 26 Years Old, Free-Agent Signing (2016) Previous Rank: 29 The Rangers signed Chapie as a free agent out of Umass-Lowell last spring, and I expressed that I was “very skeptical of his NHL future.” Last season, as a 25-year-old, he produced zero goals and four assists
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In the past, I have done midseason prospect rankings to check in on how everyone has progressed since my summer evaluations. I did not do that this past winter. This was partly because of other things going on in my life. A major contributing factor, though, was the fact that