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Rangers re-sign defenseman Matthew Robertson as camp battle looms
By Ethan Sears,
1 day ago
The Rangers kept former second-round pick Matthew Robertson in the fold, signing the restricted free agent to a one-year, two-way deal on Monday.
If in the NHL, Robertson will make the league minimum $775,000, The Post’s Mollie Walker reported.
Robertson, who has been in the organization since 2019, has yet to play an NHL game but could have the chance to do so this season.
The Rangers re-signed defenseman Matthew Robertson. Robert Sabo for the NY Post
He will likely be in the competition for the team’s seventh defense spot at training camp along with Chad Ruhwedel and perhaps Ben Harpur after Ruhwedel re-signed last week on a similar two-way deal .
While a Trouba deal would have instigated a reordering of the blue line, keeping him instead meant that the priority was keeping things relatively intact.
Rangers defenseman Matthew Robertson. Robert Sabo for the NY Post
Though Erik Gustafsson signed with Detroit as a free agent, team president and general manager Chris Drury has otherwise been successful in that pursuit thus far.
The Rangers have approximately $5.1 million in salary cap space remaining, so retaining their top-pair defensemen should be more than doable, though it will need to come soon as hearings will take place between July 20-Aug. 4.
Assuming the situation with Lindgren is resolved amicably, the Rangers will go into the season with five of the same six defensemen who were in the lineup for their playoff run, which ended in a six-game conference finals loss to the Panthers.
Zac Jones will likely slot into Gustafsson’s spot on the left side of the third pair, presumably with Trouba alongside.
The Rangers can certainly hope that Robertson will push the UMass product Jones at some point this season, but it’s more probable that the main training camp competition will be for the seventh defense spot, between Robertson and Ruhwedel.
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