I’m not sure I have ever covered a training camp like this one portends to be for the Rangers.
Because barring injuries, it appears there is one and only one roster spot open when camp begins Thursday, and that is the 13th forward slot.Because it appears there is one and only one opening night spot that will be contested through the preseason, and that is the third-pair slot on the left side of the blue line.Defenseman Zac Jones will be competing for the lone opening-night spot up for grabs during Rangers training camp.
If Peter Laviolette is anything like his predecessors, the Rangers lineup he uses on opening night will evolve a lot over the season.Guess who was on the Rangers’ first line in Gallant’s debut in Washington on Oct. 13, 2021? That would have been Alexis Lafreniere on Mika Zibanejad’s left with Chris Kreider on the right.
Filip Chytil used an impressive camp as an 18-year-old rookie to catapult himself onto the opening-night roster in 2017.“Fifty-fifty to pass or shoot,” Chytil told me after the following day’s practice. “On my first shift, maybe I should have tried a shot, I wanted to score a goal on my first shift, that would have been the best feeling, but Mats was open and I made the pass.”
The one-for-one trade that was made on Feb. 26, 2018, may have been a minor league deal, but it became a major mistake. But the 21-year-old Othmann would have to secure a top-nine spot in order to make this palatable. It is a long shot, but for the sake of conversation, the Rangers would have Kreider-Zibanejad-Kaapo Kakko as the first line; Artemi Panarin-Vincent Trocheck-Lafreniere as the second unit; and Othmann-Chytil-Blake Wheeler as the third line.Robert Sabo for the NY Post
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