After winning the NCAA championship on Saturday, defenseman Zac Jones, the Rangers’ third-round pick in the 2019 NHL Draft, signed an entry-level contract with the club and drove down from Amherst, Mass., in time to be able to skate at the team’s Tarrytown, N.Y., practice facility Tuesday morning.
He was not in the lineup for Tuesday’s game in New Jersey against the Devils.
Jones, 20, made the All-Tournament team after UMass defeated St. Cloud State, 5-0, to win the title. He didn’t score in the final, but he had nine goals and 15 assists in 29 games.