This is a knotty problem any way you’d care to try and unwrap it, but sooner or later the Rangers are going to have to deal with their goaltending situation, and soon should be just around the corner.
Because for just how long do club president John Davidson and general manager Jeff Gorton expect Igor Shesterkin to be content with his assignment to the Wolf Pack after largely mastering the AHL (7-1-2, 1.77, .936) through his first six weeks of North American pro hockey?
And I’ll tell you this, though it is difficult to assign blame to the organization over Vitali Kravtsov’s decision under different circumstances to return to Russia rather than endure in Hartford, the Rangers cannot have Shesterkin flee as well.