With Phase 3 of the NHL’s return to play plan — training camps — set to open July 10, the Rangers’ European players are making plans to return to New York next week.
After the NHL paused its season because of the COVID-19 pandemic on March 12, players were allowed to leave their team’s home cities to go home, or wherever they chose to spend the duration of the shutdown. Most of the Rangers’ European players returned to Europe, with Artemi Panarin and Igor Shesterkin the only ones choosing to stay in the U.S. Panarin stayed in the area, and is now skating and working out at the Rangers’ practice facility in Greenburgh, N.