Friday, April 25, 2008

Rangers Counting on Their Rookies

Dan Rosen at NHL.com says the Rangers need their rookies to play like veterans...

"Brandon Dubinsky gets it.

The New York Rangers' rookie center knows this has turned into the National Hockey Young Man's League, and in the new NHYML, using the old inexperience excuse simply doesn't fly because rookies are counted on just as much as veterans.

"Look around, not just at our team but every team, because some key players on every team are kids or young guys in their early 20s," said Dubinsky, who makes up a quarter of a quartet of Rangers rookies coach Tom Renney has put on the ice in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, and will again in Pittsburgh when their Eastern Conference Semifinal series starts Friday."

...our young players have done an outstanding job this year and there's no reason for me to think that they'll not continue that play in the second round.

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