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News: Rangers Announce Traverse City Roster

by Adam Rotter on July 26th, 2010 at 12:54 pm

The Rangers have announced the following players for the Traverse City Tournament:

Forwards:

Ryan Bourque, Evgeny Grachev, Roman Horak, Colin Martin, Chris McKelvie,Randy McNaught, Brendan Shinnimin, Derek Stepan, Christian Thomas, Ethan Werek, Jason Wilson, Andrew Yogan

Defenseman

Lee Baldwin, Sam Klassen, Tomas Kundratek, Daniel Maggio, Brandon Manning, Ryan McDonagh, Dylan McIlrath,Jyri Niemi

Goaltenders

Scott Stajcer, Cameron Talbot

…I dig this team. LOADS of early round talent here. Surely every team is throwing out their best prospects, but I don’t know or care about them. I love a team that has Grachev, Stepan, Werek, Thomas and Bourque up front.

Here is the schedule for the tournament from last week

New York, July 26, 2010 – New York Rangers President and General Manager Glen Sather announced today the preliminary roster for the 2010 Traverse City Tournament in Traverse City, Michigan.  The annual prospect tournament is scheduled to begin on September 11 when the Rangers’ prospects face-off against the Columbus Blue Jackets’ prospects.  This marks the fifth consecutive year that a team of Rangers prospects will be going to Traverse City for the eight-team tournament.

A group of 22 prospects will represent the Rangers next month at the annual Traverse City Prospects Tournament, which the Blueshirts won in 2007.  Nineteen of the 22 members of the 2010 roster are players whose NHL rights are currently owned by the Rangers.  Eleven players are Rangers draftees from the past two years, while eight others have already signed their first NHL contracts with the team.

Seventeen of the 22 players participated in the Rangers’ annual Prospect Development Camp earlier this summer.  This includes 2010 draft picks Dylan McIlrath, Christian Thomas, Andrew Yogan, Jason Wilson and Randy McNaught.

Forward Evgeny Grachev, the Rangers’ 2008 third round selection, will be returning to the tournament for the third straight season.  He will be joined by fellow 2008 third round draft pick, defenseman Tomas Kundratek, who was a member of the Rangers’ Traverse City team last summer.  Five players from the 2009 draft class – forwards Ryan Bourque, Ethan Werek and Roman Horak, defenseman Daniel Maggio and goaltender Scott Stajcer – are also back from the 2009 team, as is defenseman Sam Klassen.

Competing in the tournament’s “Gretzky Division”, the Rangers will play round-robin games against Carolina, Columbus and Minnesota, beginning with a September 11 tilt against Columbus’ prospects.  Their placement in the round-robin will determine who they face in the championship round that concludes the tournament.
  • http://5-hole.com Eric (5-hole.com)

    Any word on whether or not the games will be televised anywhere? If I recall, the games were on NHL Network the past few years.

  • Adam Rotter

    Last week it was announced that they wouldn’t be on TV.

  • http://5-hole.com Eric (5-hole.com)

    That’s too bad.

  • http://ohhh-pinions.blogspot.com/ themarsvolta

    It is too bad that we can’t even get a sniff of this tournament… I wonder if there are marketing rights to this, or is it that it would cost too much money?

    I wonder if it is at least possible for the NHL and/or Rangers websites to put commentatorless (is that an actual word… hahaa?) video up of the games… ???

    I don’t think just running a camera at center ice for a couple of hours is going to cost the NHL or these teams that much $? No production necessary, just one camera…

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