Alexandar Georgiev Assigned to Wolf Pack

Photo by Minas Panagiotakis/Getty ImagesThe New York Rangers announced the assignment of Alexandar Georgiev to the Hartford Wolf Pack, and the recall of Marek Mazanec.

Before jumping to conclusions, it would appear this is to get Georgiev some game action. He’s made one start this season, and the Rangers don’t play again until Sunday vs. the Calgary Flames. Given the amount of time between games, it is all but expected that Henrik Lundqvist will start that game.

Mazanec will serve as the backup, presumably, for that game and he got a career statline of 8-13-4 with an .895 save percentage and a 2.98 goals against average across three seasons with the Nashville Predators. The bulk of that came…