Vincent Z. Mercogliano of Lohud: Re-signing RFAs Filip Chytil, Libor Hajek and Igor Shesterkin are givens for the New York Rangers.
Decisions will need to be made AHL free agents Gabriel Fontaine, Tim Gettinger, Patrick Newell, Ty Ronning, Brandon Crawley and Yegor Rykov and Adam Huska.
The Rangers have $19.5 million in projected salary cap space for next season. They will have their eye on another forward and a defenseman. Do they want to have Ryan Strome and Chytil as their second and third-line centers?