STAMFORD, Conn. — In the second period of the second scrimmage at the Rangers’ Prospect Development Camp Thursday at Chelsea Piers Connecticut, the fans watching got the moment they were waiting for, the one that took their breath away.
But it wasn’t this year’s first-round pick, Kaapo Kakko, who produced it. Instead, it was last year’s first pick, Vitali Kravtsov, who dazzled the crowd with a pretty setup of a three-on-three goal by Morgan Barron against Adam Huska.
In on a breakaway with a defender rushing back to challenge him, Kravtsov, who played the last two seasons in Russia’s KHL, came in on Huska, deked, and then turned his back to the goalie and wrapped a centering pass around to Barron, who finished it cleanly to give the blue team a 3-0 lead against the white team en route to a 5-2 win.