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For Rangers, carrying three goalies raises lots of questions

ST. LOUIS — About this three-goalie thing . . .

Things were going to come to a head sooner or later with the Rangers’ goaltender situation. And with the recall this week of Igor Shesterkin from the minor leagues, it appears the time is now for the club to figure out what it is going to do about it.

Essentially, the Rangers have three goaltenders they believe in: Henrik Lundqvist, the face of the franchise for the last 15 years; Shesterkin, the 24-year-old Russian they drafted in 2014 to be the heir apparent to Lundqvist, and Alexandar Georgiev, the 23-year-old Russian (who was born in Bulgaria) who signed with the team after a tryout in 2017 and who has played well enough in his three years in the organization to force himself into the picture.