When the New York Rangers take the ice Monday evening at Madison Square Garden, there will be at least two familiar faces standing on the opposite blue line while John Amirante (or another designated singer) bellows the national anthem.
One player was the face of the Rangers’ farm system for a number of years, and the other was the poster child of general manager Glen Sather’s penchant for taking on reclamation projects.
Those two players are Ryan Callahan and Anton Stralman, and neither has missed a beat since departing Manhattan for scenic and sunny Tampa Bay, Florida. Both players made sizable contributions to the Rangers, but we will get to Stralman later since his tenure was significantly shorter than Callahan’s.
Callahan was dealt for Martin St. Louis at the 2014 NHL trade deadline, and it was a move that brought mixed results.
Some fans were inconsolable because “the Captain,” a fan favorite, was dealt. Others were ecstatic that Callahan was gone because it brought an elite scorer in St. Louis to the team, and it guaranteed that Sather was not go ...
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Article written by Tom Urtz Jr.
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