The Rangers added former Stanley Cup winning defenseman and minor-league coach Jeff Beukeboom to their staff Friday to replace assistant Ulf Samuelsson, who left two months ago to coach the AHL’s Charlotte Checkers.
Beukeboom, 51, who won three Cups with Edmonton and in 1994 with the Rangers, has helped develop Rangers defense prospects Dylan McIlrath, Brady Skjei and Ryan Graves in Hartford, where he has been an assistant for four years.
Beukeboom, a bruising, physical player, who will run the defense, called all three “high-character players, driven, willing to work and coachable.”
“I’m excited to work with the group [in New York]”, he said.