Another Thanksgiving holiday has come and gone. The turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce and apple pie leftovers are long gone. The Hanukkah and Christmas decorations are ready to be displayed. It is time to turn our attention back to hockey, specifically, the New York Rangers European prospects.
We’ll start this week’s piece about the 2018 first-round draft pick from Russia, forward Vitali Kravtsov. General Manager Jeff Gorton’s selection of the highly skilled Kravtsov drew a ton of scrutiny at the time since most prognosticators had him going somewhere in the middle-to-late part of the first round. However, the gamble seems to be paying off as the right-winger (his position, not his politics) continues to impress and earn accolades as a teenager playing in the KHL.