Thursday, September 28, 2017

Rangers Make Roster Cuts, NYRTC Notes



The Rangers have announced that the following roster moves: Lias Andersson has been loaned to Frolunda in the Swedish League, Bobby Farnham was released from his PTO, Boo Nieves, Vinni Lettieri, Ryan Graves & Neal Pionk are being sent to Hartford and Matt Puempel is being placed on waivers.

The Rangers have 25 players remaining in training camp:

Forwards (15): Pavel Buchnevich, Paul Carey, Filip Chytil, David Desharnais, Andrew Desjardins, Jesper Fast, Steven Fogarty*, Michael Grabner, Kevin Hayes, Chris Kreider, J.T. Miller, Rick Nash, Jimmy Vesey, Mika Zibanejad, Mats Zuccarello

Defensemen (8): Tony DeAngelo, Nick Holden, Steven Kampfer, Ryan McDonagh, Kevin Shattenkirk, Brady Skjei, Brendan Smith, Marc Staal

Goaltenders (2): Henrik Lundqvist, Ondrej Pavelec

The lines the Rangers are using at practice this morning include (NYR):

Chris Kreider, Mika Zibanejad, Pavel Buchnevich
Rick Nash, Filip Chytil, Mats Zuccarello
Michael Grabner, Kevin Hayes, JT Miller
Jimmy Vesey, David Desharnais, Paul Carey
On defense the Rangers have Ryan McDonagh & Kevin Shattenkirk, Brady Skjei & Brendan Smith, Marc Staal & Anthony DeAngelo.

Andrew Desjardins & Jesper Fast are skating as extras up front and Nick Holden and Steven Kampfer are skating as a fourth defense pair.

The Rangers have announced that Filip Chytil has been named the winner of the Lars-Erik Sjoberg Award, "which is given annually to the top Rangers rookie in Training Camp as selected by the media."

Chytil is one of our players to win the award in the same year they were drafted, including Dan Blackburn (2001), Filip Novak (2000) and Manny Malhotra (1998).

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