Labor Day doesn’t just symbolize the end of summer, it also kicks off the return to work for the hockey world and it is now only days before the New York Rangers will be back in action.
New York Rangers hockey news should be picking up as we near the NHL Prospect Tournament in Traverse City and the opening of training camp. In the meantime, there was some stuff going on.
Traverse City Update
We’ve written about the Traverse City NHL Prospect Tournament a few times. The question that remains is whether Ranger fans will be able to watch the games.
The schedule of Ranger games is as follows:
3:30pm, Friday, September 6: Columbus Blue Jackets vs. Rangers
7pm, Saturday, September 7: Dallas Stars vs. Rangers
2:30pm, Monday, September 9: Minnesota Wild vs. Rangers
Depending on how the Rangers do, they will play on Tuesday. The Blueshirts are in the Ted Lindsay Division along with Carolina, Columbus and Minnesota. The Gordie Howe Division is comprised of Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis and Toronto
Tuesday, September 10 (times TBA):
Seventh-Place Game between 4th place teams from both divisions
Fifth-Place Game between 3rd place teams from both divisions
Third-Place Game between 2nd place teams from both divisions
Championship Game between 1st place teams from both divisions
There have been confllicting tweets about the possiblity of a live stream. First came this tweet from Larry Brooks of the New York Post:
MSG is not televising Traverse City tournament. Penny wise, pound foolish decision by bean counting decision maker(s).
— Larry Brooks (@NYP_Brooksie) August 29, 2019
That was followed by this tweet from Vince Mercogliano of Lohud.com.
For the #NYR fans who are worried about not being able to watch the Traverse City Tournament... I asked the Rangers and they said the games will be live-streamed. A link should be coming next week. https://t.co/lVTVcFyVnz
— Vince Z. Mercogliano (@vzmercogliano) August 29, 2019
So, stay tuned, it looks like we will be able to watch at least some of the games. In the past, the number of games live streamed has ranged all of them to just the games of one of the teams.
Meanwhile, some Rangers prospects were in Virginia.