Bantering Points: 9/20/17

The Rangers are back in action tonight as Filip Chytil and Kevin Shattenkirk are set to make their debuts when they take on the New Jersey Devils in another intense pre-season contest. Here are today's news and links:

Rangers News:

• Brett Cyrgalis hears from Ondrej Pavelec about his expectations of succeeding Antti Raanta heading into the season (NY Post)
• Sean Hartnett dives into the battle that has emerged for spots on Alain Vigneault's 3rd defense pairing (CBS)
• Steve Zipay reports that Filip Chytil will skate in his first game for the Rangers later tonight, centering a line between Adam Tambellini and Jimmy Vesey (Newsday)
• Dave Shapiro passed along the rest of the team's lineup for tonight's game (Blue Seat Blogs)
• Josh Khalfin gives an in-depth breakdown of the Blueshirts' top ten prospects (Blue Seat Blogs)
• Brandon Cohen examines the idea of rolling with a lineup of eleven forwards and seven defenseman (Blue Line Station)
• Karly Redpath previews how Mika Zibanejad will fare in his first season as New York's top center (Blue Line Station)
• Shayna Goldman takes a look at the Rangers sub-par center situation as they inch closer to the regular season (FanRag)
• Anthony Scultore calls out the New York Post for including Tony DeAngelo's off-ice opinions in a piece discussing is on-ice past (Full Tilt)
• Frank Curto thinks that J.T. Miller won't have major issues transitioning back to playing center (Elite Sports NY)
• Media Availability: Alain Vigneault,(5:42) Henrik Lundqvist,(4:00) Flilp Chytil,(2:33) and Kevin Shattenkirk (4:07) (Official Team Site)
• He attended to Rangers' training camp in 2010, failed to make the cut, and appeared in zero NHL games over six more seasons in professional hockey. Yesterday's player in the picture was.....Garnet Exelby (Wikipedia)/

Around the NHL:

• Frank Seravalli highlights the early returns on the league's crackdown on slashing penalties and faceoff violations (TSN)
• James O'Brien writes that of all the options free agent forward Jaromir Jagr is open to, retiring and trying out for a team are not on the table (NBC Sports)
• Ryan Lambert comments on Florida Panthers' general manager Dale Tallon's quest to undo anything and everything good the previous regime in Florida did (Puck Daddy)
• Former Ranger and current New Jersey Devils forward Brian Boyle announced that he was diagnosed with chronic myeloid lukemia, and support has rolled in from across the hockey world as Boyle begins his fight (Sportsnet)/

Do you know who the former Ranger in the picture is?