Bantering Points: 9/21/17

The Rangers won another intense pre-season contest last night, pulling out a 4-3 overtime victory against the New Jersey Devils. Here are today's news and links:

Rangers News:

• Highlights: NYR 4, NJD 3 (3:52 video via NHL.com)
• Steve Zipay discusses how David Desharnais is looking to resurrect his career in New York (Newsday)
• Justin Tasch went around the locker room to hear how some of Brian Boyle's former teammates reacted to his cancer diagnosis (NY Daily News)
• Tasch also noted that Filip Chytil didn't look out of place as he scored the game winning goal in last night's contest (NY Daily News)
• Larry Brooks heard from Chris Kreider about how he must take on a bigger role in New York's locker room this season (NY Post)
• Kevin Baumer highlighted what we learned about the Blueshirts' prior to last night's game against New Jersey (Blue Seat Blogs)
• Dave Shapiro recaps last night's overtime victory against the Devils (Blue Seat Blogs)
• Jack Milewski previews what to expect from Michael Grabner's second season on Broadway (Blue Line Station)
• John Cavanagh previews what to expect from J.T. Miller's sixth season on Broadway (Blue Line Station)
• Postgame Notes: Kevin Shattenkirk made the most of his first game in New York, recording three assists and leading the team in time on ice (Official Team Site)
• Media Availability: Alain Vigneault,(3:20) Mats Zuccarello,(1:13) Henrik Lundqvist, (1:58) Kevin Shattenkirk,(1:12) and Filip Chytil (1:26)
• He had three separate stints as a Ranger, one of which came on a training camp tryout in 2008. Yesterday's player in the picture was.....Petr Nedved (Wikipedia)/

Around the NHL:

• Cam Tucker hears that Toronto Maple Leafs forward Joffrey Lupul has come out and apologize for his scathing remarks against the organization (NBC Sports)
• yolo_pinyato dives into the Vegas Golden Knights roster and how they will fare in the team's inaugural season (Hockey Graphs)
• Mark Spector believes that the leagues's crackdown on slashing penalties has pushed the big, lumbering oafs on skates that qualify as NHL defenseman further towards extinction (Sportsnet)
• Frank Seravalli lists ten training camp developments to keep an eye on (TSN)/

Do you know who the former Ranger in the picture is?