The Rangers will be sending cardboard cutouts of 25 of their players to the Herb Brooks Arena in Lake Placid, N.Y., to be placed in the seats for the National Women’s Hockey League’s 2021 season, which will take place in the arena with no fans present, between Jan. 23 and Feb 5.
Cutouts of Mika Zibanejad, Artemi Panarin, Chris Kreider, Igor Shesterkin and the rest of the Rangers will be placed in the stands and remain there for all 24 games to be played by the league’s six teams.
"When we’re competing for the Isobel Cup, seeing the faces of the Rangers players in the stands at Herb Brooks Arena will have us fired up,’’ said Connecticut Whale captain Shannon Doyle, an original NWHL player who has led several Junior Rangers clinics over the last two years.