It appears that the 23-man Rangers roster will stick for Thursday’s start of the regular season. That number doesn’t include Oscar Lindberg, who is on injured reserve but improving.
“I’m thinking that we might, for a short amount of time until we sort things out and we see different players in NHL competition, we might keep 23, but I’m not 100 percent sure,” coach Alain Vigneault said Saturday after practice at Chelsea Piers in Manhattan. “We’re definitely under the cap, but any money that you spend on players not playing, that you can use later on . .