{"id":314382,"date":"2025-10-18T21:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T21:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/314382\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T21:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T21:31:10","slug":"matthew-robertsons-rangers-time-has-finally-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/314382\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Robertson&#8217;s Rangers time has finally arrived"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL \u2014 Matthew Robertson was drafted by the Rangers well over six years ago, but the big-bodied defenseman is only just getting his first legitimate chance to prove he can be a full-time NHL player.<\/p>\n<p>Year after year, the organization\u2019s 49th-overall pick in 2019 came through training camp without coming close to cracking the Blueshirts roster. <\/p>\n<p>And season after season, whenever the team needed to make a call to AHL Hartford amid an injury on defense, Robertson never got a single look.<\/p>\n<p>It took 2,124 days in the Rangers system before he made his NHL debut last season, which really only came about because the Rangers were already eliminated from playoff contention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL \u2014 Matthew Robertson was drafted by the Rangers well over six years ago, but the big-bodied defenseman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":314383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[1302,293,62,2225,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-314382","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-sports","11":"tag-sports-plus","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115397308463269694","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314382","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=314382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}