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Bantering Points<\/a><\/p>\n

Your morning round-up of the latest from Blueshirt Banter, Rangers News, and updates from around the NHL<\/p>\n


\n \"Jake
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\"Bantering<\/p>\n

Here are today’s news and links:<\/p>\n

From Blueshirt Banter:<\/p>\n

Eric Kohn examines<\/a> the Rangers’ victory at Madison Square Garden against the Washington Capitals (BSB) <\/p>\n

Rangers News: <\/p>\n

Justin Bonhard <\/a>talks about Wil Cuylle’s performance over the last few Rangers’ games (Blue Line Station) <\/p>\n

Scott Rogust discusses<\/a> head coach Mike Sullivan’s comments about what the team has to play for (Blue Line Station) <\/p>\n

Brian Abate takes a<\/a> look at the play of the Blueshirts’ young forwards over the last few games (THW) <\/p>\n

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Around the NHL: <\/p>\n

The New Jersey Devils<\/a> and general manager Tom Fitzgerald have decided to go in a different direction (SportsNet) <\/p>\n

Florida Panthers forward<\/a> Eetu Luostarinen was fined for his high-sticking call against the St. Louis Blues (SportsNet) <\/p>\n

Winnipeg Jets forward<\/a> Morgan Barron is considered week-to-week with an injury against the Columbus Blue Jackets (TSN) <\/p>\n

Rickard Rakell, Jack<\/a> Hughes, and Robert Thomas were named the NHL’s three stars of the week (SportsNet) <\/p>\n

Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a> forwards Anthony Cirelli and Brandon Hagel did not play against the Buffalo Sabres (SportsNet) <\/p>\n

Here is a power ranking<\/a> for the top goalie masks worn by netminders across the league (The Athletic) <\/p>\n

Edmonton Oilers head <\/a>coach Kris Knoblauch has not ruled out Leon Draisaitl could return for game one of the playoffs (SportsNet) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bantering Points Your morning round-up of the latest from Blueshirt Banter, Rangers News, and updates from around the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5111],"tags":[5,3328,35,5190,5193,4,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-545575","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-rangers","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-rangers","11":"tag-newyork","12":"tag-newyorkrangers","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-rangers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116363731973119974","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}