{"id":248853,"date":"2025-09-23T11:55:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T11:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/248853\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T11:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T11:55:11","slug":"the-almost-ranger-who-now-could-answer-a-crucial-defense-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/248853\/","title":{"rendered":"The almost-Ranger who now could answer a crucial defense question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was 12 and a half years ago, and the Rangers were looking to add depth on the right side of the defense down the stretch of the truncated 2012-13 season.<\/p>\n<p>A young man named Andrej Sustr was coming out of college as a 22-year-old, and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2013\/03\/19\/rangers-expected-to-make-run-at-college-defenseman-sustr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Blueshirts were all-in<\/a>. They thought they had the 6-foot-7 righty.<\/p>\n<p>But they did not.<\/p>\n<p>Sustr, a native of Plzen, Czechia, who had played one year in the NAHL and one year in the USHL before spending two seasons at Nebraska-Omaha, instead signed with the Lightning, who apparently presented a greater opportunity for the young defenseman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was 12 and a half years ago, and the Rangers were looking to add depth on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":248854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[1302,293,2229,62,2225,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-248853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-new-york-rangers","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-post-sports-newsletters","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-sports-plus","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115253485855721597","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248853","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=248853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}