{"id":139593,"date":"2025-08-12T11:57:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T11:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/139593\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T11:57:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T11:57:11","slug":"why-rangers-may-have-turned-corner-after-years-of-draft-misses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/139593\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Rangers may have turned corner after years of draft misses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the Rangers <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/01\/sports\/rangers-trade-kandre-miller-as-roster-makeover-continues\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shipped K\u2019Andre Miller<\/a>, their No. 22 overall pick in 2018, to Carolina on July 1, the organization was officially flushed of every single one of the six first-round draft picks it made from 2017 to 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The No. 7 overall pick in 2017, Lias Andersson, was traded to the Kings in Oct. 2020 after the young Swede struggled to acclimate overseas in every way.<\/p>\n<p>Filip Chytil, chosen 14 spots later, was packaged and sent to Vancouver for J.T. Miller this past season once the Blueshirts weighed <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/04\/22\/sports\/why-did-rangers-keep-using-players-who-werent-healthy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the uncertainty of his extensive concussion history<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Vitali Kravtsov, the Rangers\u2019 ninth overall selection in 2018, was sent to Vancouver in Feb. 2023 after a saga that included refusing an AHL assignment, a slew of injuries and unimpressive play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After the Rangers shipped K\u2019Andre Miller, their No. 22 overall pick in 2018, to Carolina on July 1,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":139594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[56603,4348,83476,1302,293,2229,62,2225,67,132,68,83477],"class_list":{"0":"post-139593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-inside-the-rangers","9":"tag-kandre-miller","10":"tag-kaapo-kakko","11":"tag-new-york-rangers","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-post-sports-newsletters","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-sports-plus","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-vitali-kravtsov"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115015676303552591","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}