Desperate Rangers could turn to these prospects for scoring http://nypost.com/…/rangers-looking-for-offense-just-about…/
Larry Brooks, NYP
Rangers management has a few days grace before roster decisions come due for the three-day trek through western Canada that commences with Monday’s flight to Vancouver in advance of Wednesday’s match against the Canucks, but general manager Jeff Gorton and the staff will need to settle on an extra forward and extra defenseman to accompany the club.
Larry Brooks, NYP
Rangers management has a few days grace before roster decisions come due for the three-day trek through western Canada that commences with Monday’s flight to Vancouver in advance of Wednesday’s match against the Canucks, but general manager Jeff Gorton and the staff will need to settle on an extra forward and extra defenseman to accompany the club.
Tanner Glass, who played his second straight in place of Emerson Etem
(recovering from an illness) in Thursday’s 2-1 defeat to the Avalanche
at the Garden, was the leader in the clubhouse prior to this one off his
energetic and effective performance in Wednesday’s 2-1 shootout defeat
in Brooklyn.
But now, with the Blueshirts enmeshed in a scoring slump in which they have scored 10 goals in going 1-4-1 in the past six, it is possible the team will promote a more offensively inclined forward, such as Jayson Megna or Adam Tambellini.
The Rangers, who have carried the minimum six healthy defensemen since Kevin Klein suffered an abdominal pull Monday that will sideline the steady right-sider for an expected two-to-three weeks, have just enough cap space to recall rookie Brady Skjei.
That would allow the coaching to get a look at the first-year pro in full practices scheduled for Tuesday and Thursday, the latter before back-to-back games Friday and Saturday in Edmonton and Calgary, respectively.
But Skjei is a lefty who does not play the right side. If any of the current healthy right-siders were to go down out west, the Blueshirts would have to shift Ryan McDonagh to his off-side to fill the void.
For that reason, it is more likely the Rangers will recall veteran Chris Summers, a lefty who can play the right side. Summers played three late-season games for the Blueshirts after he came to the organization from Arizona in the Keith Yandle deal — one on the right — and skated as an extra throughout the playoffs.
Dylan McIlrath, playing in his second straight in Klein’s absence, and fourth of the past five, is going to get an extended run.
“Dylan knows that he is going to get the opportunity with Kevin out,” coach Alain Vigneault said of the rookie, who was steady again after playing in just four of the team’s first 22 games. “When you get those opportunities, you have to grab them and make the most out of them.
But now, with the Blueshirts enmeshed in a scoring slump in which they have scored 10 goals in going 1-4-1 in the past six, it is possible the team will promote a more offensively inclined forward, such as Jayson Megna or Adam Tambellini.
The Rangers, who have carried the minimum six healthy defensemen since Kevin Klein suffered an abdominal pull Monday that will sideline the steady right-sider for an expected two-to-three weeks, have just enough cap space to recall rookie Brady Skjei.
That would allow the coaching to get a look at the first-year pro in full practices scheduled for Tuesday and Thursday, the latter before back-to-back games Friday and Saturday in Edmonton and Calgary, respectively.
But Skjei is a lefty who does not play the right side. If any of the current healthy right-siders were to go down out west, the Blueshirts would have to shift Ryan McDonagh to his off-side to fill the void.
For that reason, it is more likely the Rangers will recall veteran Chris Summers, a lefty who can play the right side. Summers played three late-season games for the Blueshirts after he came to the organization from Arizona in the Keith Yandle deal — one on the right — and skated as an extra throughout the playoffs.
Dylan McIlrath, playing in his second straight in Klein’s absence, and fourth of the past five, is going to get an extended run.
“Dylan knows that he is going to get the opportunity with Kevin out,” coach Alain Vigneault said of the rookie, who was steady again after playing in just four of the team’s first 22 games. “When you get those opportunities, you have to grab them and make the most out of them.
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