GREENBURGH, N.Y. — Consider the first few months of the Rangers latest version of “Moscow on the Hudson” complete. For Pavel Buchnevich, now the competition and hard knocks only get tougher.
Over the years, a number of Russian-born players have pulled on the Blueshirts sweater, with varying degrees of success.
They include Alexei Kovalev, Sergei Zubov, Sergei Nemchinov and Alexander Karpovtsev — who in 1994 were the first Russians to have their names engraved on the Stanley Cup — as well as Pavel Bure, Valeri Kamensky, Vladimir Malakhov, Artem Anisimov, Fedor Tyutin, Nikolai Zherdev and prospects Evgeny Grachev, Alexander Frolov, Fedor Federov and Enver Lisin.