Rangers Prospect Camp

Fresh off their striking second day of the NHL Draft, the Rangers will hold their annual prospect tomorrow, which will run all week and probably provide lots of good video.  Because of the lack of ones and twos, and the absolutely needless trade of Saarela, the camp will be lacking in broad star power.  Still, there will be some exciting guys there, lead by the Rangers' top prospect, Pavel Buchnevich.   Ryan Gropp, last year's first pick - a second rounder - will be there, too, and he's coming off a big year in the WHL whick also saw him get signed.  Robin Kovacs, the Swede from last years draft will also be on hand, and so will Adam Graves, the big D with the big shot.

All of yesterday's picks, except for Tarmo Reunanan, who is still recovering from the injury that caused him to fall to the Rangers.  But it will be fun to see just how great "great skaters" Sean Day and Tim Gettinger look.  As well as getting our first glimpses of Gabriel Fontaine and Ty Ronning.

The Ranger goalie roster looks short.  Brandon Halverson, McKenzie Skapski and the just drafted Tyler Wall will all be there, but Igor Shesterkin and Adam Huska will not, and that kind of sucks.  I happen to think they both have futures with the Rangers.

The rest of the previously drafted forwards include, C Brad Morrison,  C Stephen Fogarty, and  C Boo Nieves.  With Nieves plus Buch and the new guys, we could see some very fancy skating.  Malte Stromwall, whom we signed here or there will be on hand, as well as the Three Plessa Brothers, who I've never heard of, but form a line, will they bring the foil? Nick Betz, Adam Chapel, Michael Joly, Reid Duke, CJ Smith, Zachary Zborosky and Dmitri Buinitsky round out the F's.

Joining Day and Graves on D will be former pick Sergei Zborovskiy, and Calle Andersson. Other D's include big guy Troy Donnay, who's still figuring it out, and Turner Ottenbreit, and Rylan Yaremko.

Not a first rounder in the bunch. Which I think is the first time, unles Skjei wasn't hear last year. Still, a pretty exciting bunch of top end skaters and we'll see where it leads.