Bantering Points: 2/18/22
Here are today’s news and links:
Rangers News:
- Highlights: DET 2*, NYR 2 (5:09 video via NHL.com)
- Game Recap: After a back and forth affair throughout the game, the Rangers and Red Wings played to a draw after 65:00 of hockey (CBS)
- Larry Brooks details how the Blueshirts are still evaluating Filip Chytil in their attempts to discover his true potential (NY Post)
- Colin Stephenson heard from a few of New York’s younger players that have all but assured they’ll be making their playoff debuts when the regular season comes to a close (Newsday)
- Vincent Mercogliano offers his takeaways from last nights contest (LoHud)
- Brendan Azoff argues that when Patrik Nemeth returns off the injured reserve list, he shouldn’t immediately return to the lineup (The Hockey Writers)
- Tom Castro details how the 2022 trade deadline could be an opportunity to reopen the wound left by the Ryan McDonagh trade of the 2018 deadline (The Hockey Writers)/
Around the NHL:
- The Montreal Canadiens have hired Vincent Lecavalier and Nikolai Bobrov to their hockey operations department (TSN)
- The Toronto Maple Leafs and Buffalo Sabres unveiled the jerseys they’ll be wearing for the 2022 Heritage Classic (Sportsnet)
- James O’Brien recaps the action from around the league last night (NBC Sports)/