It hasn’t even been a week since the Rangers opened the 2017-18 season, but the Filip Chytil on Broadway experiment appears to be over. After emerging from training camp as the team’s second line center, Chytil averaged less than six and a half minutes of ice time in the team’s first two games and sitting as a healthy scratch during Sunday night’s victory against Montreal, Alain Vigneault seemingly decided that Chytil isn’t ready for the grind of an 82 game regular season as an 18 year old.
After claiming Adam Cracknell off waivers from the Dallas Stars, the Rangers face an even greater problem than they did throughout the off-season.