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Kravtsov Is Starting to Look Like Himself in Hartford

It’s hard to imagine many ways that the first half of the 2019-2020 hockey season could have gone worse for 2018 10th-overall pick Vitali Kravtsov. He didn’t make the Rangers out of training camp, which was not a big deal. But then he struggled heavily in Hartford, getting sat multiple times. He abruptly left the team and flew back home to Russia, where he rejoined Traktor Chelyabinsk of the KHL and griped about the way the Rangers handled him. He then had such a tough time at Traktor that his hometown team demoted him to Russia’s minor league.