On July 18, 2017 the New York Rangers signed goaltender Alexandar Georgiev. He had attended the team’s annual prospect camp and had impressed the brass enough to earn a contract.
Georgiev was undrafted, despite posting robust numbers in Liiga, (the top-tier Finnish hockey league) the preceding season: a 0.923 save percentage and 1.70 goals against average in 27 games as a 21 year old.
Georgiev also made his name known on the international stage by backstopping the Russian national team to a silver medal in the 2016 World Junior Championship (along with new Rangers prospect Yegor Rykov).