{"id":283460,"date":"2025-10-07T07:11:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T07:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/283460\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T07:11:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T07:11:30","slug":"rangers-waste-no-time-with-bonding-trip-and-roster-surprises-in-tow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/283460\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers waste no time with bonding trip and roster surprises in tow"},"content":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2014 Leading up to Opening Night at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday,<\/a> the Rangers spent a couple of days as a team in Rhode Island.<\/p>\n

They left straight from their preseason finale in Boston and had a team dinner.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On Sunday, players went golfing and to the shooting range before a team-building activity in the evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The last time the Blueshirts organized a bonding trip, this one concluding with a practice at Boss Ice Arena at the University of Rhode Island on Monday, was in 2022 under ex-head coach Gerard Gallant.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt came together through a discussion between Chris [Drury] and I and the leadership group,\u201d new head coach Mike Sullivan said on the eve of his first matchup with his former team of 10 years, the Penguins. \u201cWith, you know, obviously a lot of change that was around the team, with a lot of new faces, everything from the coaching staff to player personnel and things of that nature. The thought was brought up to do something like this and find a window of opportunity somewhere at the end of training camp, when we got very close to the semblance of the team, where we could have an experience that would help us get to know one another better in a different setting and create some sort of team-building experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rookie Noah Laba and veteran wing Conor Sheary, who came into training camp on a professional tryout agreement, were among the 23 players the Rangers took to Rhode Island because they earned spots in the opening-night lineup<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"NewRangers center Noah Laba (L) skates away with the puck past a defending New York Islanders left wing Alex Jefferies in the third period at Madison Square Garden. JASON SZENES\/ NY POST<\/p>\n

The Rangers signed Sheary to a one-year, two-way deal for the NHL minimum of $775,000, the team announced after practice Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As a result, Brett Berard headed back to Hartford instead of New York from Rhode Island, meaning the 22-year-old Laba is the only youngster who made the Rangers out of training camp.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

More than that, Laba looks primed to make his NHL debut Tuesday night at MSG as the third-line center. The 6-foot-3, 214-pounder said he didn\u2019t necessarily surprise himself this training camp because he\u2019s always believed he was capable.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe player that I watched in the rookie games in Lehigh Valley versus the player that I watched in Boston the other day, I think he\u2019s made leaps and bounds, even just from a confidence standpoint,\u201d Sullivan said of Laba, who skated in the middle of Sheary and Taylor Raddysh on the third line Monday. \u201cI think he physically is capable of playing at this level. He\u2019s big and he\u2019s strong, he brings good size. He can really skate\u2026He\u2019s probably provided evidence to himself that he belongs, and I think you can see it in his confidence when he\u2019s on the ice. We think he\u2019s had a terrific camp.<\/p>\n

\"ConorConor Sheary skates against the New Jersey Devils in a preseason game at the Prudential Center on September 21, 2025 in Newark. Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Labs has proven to us that he\u2019s very capable of playing at this level. I think his physical stature gives him an advantage because physically I think he\u2019s as big and as strong to play against these guys. And this is a big and strong league.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Rangers also should be fully healthy to start the 2025-26 campaign after J.T. Miller and Artemi Panarin were full participants Monday following their respective injury hurdles this preseason.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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And so the Blueshirts roster is set.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A roster that is charged with getting the ball rolling on making up for last season\u2019s implosion<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Rangers ensured they got an early start in Rhode Island.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like we got a lot of work done,\u201d Braden Schneider told The Post. \u201cI feel like we got our systems in place. I think we\u2019re really starting to feel comfortable with our identity and what we want to accomplish as a team. Everyone\u2019s really buying into it, and now it\u2019s kind of at the point where you got to start putting it into action. I\u2019m excited. I think everyone in our room is excited. I\u2019m really looking forward to [Tuesday].\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KINGSTON, R.I. \u2014 Leading up to Opening Night at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday, the Rangers spent a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":283461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,66396,405,403,1302,5226,5225,293,5228,5227,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-283460","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-mike-sullivan-nhl","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-new-york-rangers","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115331641355605896","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283460","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=283460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}