Thursday, September 17, 2009

First Cuts Announced

Andrew Gross at Ranger Rants, who is keeping my blog in business, reports on the Rangers first cuts.

For official announcement from the Rangers click here.

Below are the players who made it...

Goal: Chad Johnson, Henrik Lundqvist, Steve Valiquette, Matt Zaba

Defense: Michael Del Zotto, Matt Gilroy, Dan Girardi, Ilkka Heikkinen, Corey Potter, Wade Redden, Michal Rozsival, Bobby Sanguinetti, Alexei Semenov, Marc Staal

Forwards: Artem Anisimov, Tyler Arnason, Sean Avery, Brian Boyle, Donald Brashear, Dane Byers, Ryan Callahan, Paul Crowder, Chris Drury, Marian Gaborik, Evgeny Grachev, Christopher Higgins, Ales Kotalik, Enver Lisin, Corey Locke, Jordan Owens, P.A. Parenteau, Vinny Prospal, Patrick Rissmiller, Aaron Voros.

...no real surprises here.

Gross adds that for technical reasons regarding waivers, Tyler Arnason, Dane Byers, Corey Locke, Patrick Rissmiller and Jordan Owens are continuing training camp with Hartford (AHL) but are still part of the Rangers' current plans.

John Tortorella said the team will go down to two goalies after this weekend.

Speaking of goalies, Gross also has a post on the Ranger organization's depth at that position.

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