September 25 - October 1, 2017

Week In Review The Week Ahead This Week in

• The Rangers opened their six- • The Rangers conclude their Rangers History game preseason schedule with preseason schedule with a back- • Sept. 26, 1988 - The Rangers four games last week. The to-back, home-and-home set with signed Guy Lafleur as a free agent. Blueshirts posted a 2-2-0 record in the . the four contests during the week • Sept. 27, 1991 - The Rangers and won both games at Madison and Los Angeles Kings played a Square Garden. preseason game at Caesars Palace • The Blueshirts won their first game in Las Vegas, the first outdoor of the preseason, 1-0, in hockey game (exhibition or regular against the Islanders on Sept. 18 at season) between two NHL teams. MSG. Neal Pionk tallied the game- winning at 2:31 of overtime. • New York begins the back-to- • The Rangers won their second back set against Philadelphia preseason game in 2017, 4-3, in on Monday, Sept. 25 at MSG. overtime against New Jersey on The Rangers play the final game Sept. 20 at MSG. Filip Chytil, who of their preseason schedule on was selected by the Rangers in Tuesday, Sept. 26 against the Flyers in Philadelphia. • Sept. 30, 2011 - Playing against • The Rangers will announce this year’s winner of the Lars-Erik his former team in Sweden, and Sjoberg Award following the against his twin brother, Joel, conclusion of the preseason. The helped the award is presented annually to the Rangers defeat the Frolunda top Rangers rookie during Training Indians, 4-2, in an exhibition game Camp. in Gothenburg. the first round (21st overall) of the 2017 NHL Entry Draft, registered • The award bears the name of Lars- Quotebook the game-winning goal with 3.5 Erik Sjoberg, who was the Rangers seconds remaining in overtime. chief European scout for eight “With the changes we’ve made, we’re years. Current Rangers who have going to be quicker than we were a • Kevin Shattenkirk tallied three received the award in their career season ago. We are younger, too, but assists, including two power play include Henrik Lundqvist (2005), make no mistake. We’ve come close assists, in his first game of the Marc Staal (2007), Jesper Fast a few times in recent years, and our preseason on Sept. 20. (2013), and Jimmy Vesey (2016). goal this year remains the same: to get into the playoffs and then make • Henrik Lundqvist stopped 23 of • Prior to the start of the regular up that small difference and win the 24 shots he faced while playing season, the Rangers will spend .” - Rangers Head Coach the first two periods on Sept. 23 parts of three days in Lake Placid, Alain Vigneault against New Jersey. New York (October 1 - October 3).