Kitchener Rangers 2022 Off-season Thread
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This was a great opportunity for Xhekaj to end his time in the OHL on his home town team....now OHL champs and heading to the Mem Cup.
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Xhekaj... Big fan of 8, one of my favourite players.
A rare pic of him smiling. He could go out on Halloween as 'V' as in "V for Vendetta" without even needing a Guy Fawkes mask. However, I'd prefer him in a Habs costume in October.
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When Detroit drafted Sebrango I said I wished it was Xhekaj instead. Sebrango will be an NHL dman but I think Xhekaj will have a bigger impact.
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Sebrango seems to be on a trajectory to at least see some callup play in the NHL next season but needs to keep elevating his development and find another gear to be a career pro IMO. Xhekaj needs some AHL time to even determine where he's really at as a pro talent despite shining strongly at camp last year. Habs seem to have a logjam on the D pipeline with contracts due to be sorted out and 1st rounders Kaiden Guhle (L) & Logan Mailloux (R) in the mix but Xhekaj has repeatedly shown that he does the work and finds a way. Habs are anything but 'by the book' with handling prospects and Xhekaj could somehow hit and stick before too long.
It will be interesting to see how Arber stacks up vs Guhle (EDM) & even (pre-season Ranger) Martin Has (SHA) in the MemCup.
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Xhekaj has always been much more physical and better defensively. I think he's well on his way to surpassing Sebrango offensively too if he hasn't already. By being allowed to play the maximum time in junior Xhekaj has been able to develop that part of his game.
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Fairly good chance we see a retro jersey this year with it being the 60th season. Rangers did a "what's your favourite logo" poll with past logos on facebook/twitter today. Personally, I loved the retro one they made for the 50th.
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I hate to give the boring answer but I think the current logo is their best. Although I do like the one in RangerNation's profile pic.
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Probably #5 as the refined, current version of its direct NYR themed predecessors though I always liked #4 and have red & white soldier jerseys. Never liked #3, or Tex, but it's great that the kids still do.
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Number five is the easy pick. I agree with K2 on number five.
Personally, I’m a traditionalist and hate to see them wear anything except their traditional whites and blues.
Every time I see them skate out wearing a third jersey of any kind grates on me. Like fingernails down a chalkboard.
I understand the remembrance day game jerseys are for a good cause but, still hate seeing them in anything outside the whites and blues.
As an aside, I always wondered why Kitchener go with red helmets home and away while the New York Rangers go with white (home) and blue (away).
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Hopefully, Roman Schmidt will do a Kitchener Rangers sell job on Cutter Gauthier at USA Hockey's National Junior Evaluation Camp July 24-August 3 in Plymouth, Michigan. I did say hopefully.
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This logo ages me as it's what they wore when I first started going to games and my first Rangers jersey. I prefer their current look right now but that WW1 soldier could easily become their new logo going forward and I wouldn't mind it. At the very least, see what it looks like on a white/off white jersey and have that and the classic blue as home and away options.
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There’s a curious date range gap for the 70’s in the depicted logos. That’s the era when I started going to games all the time as a youngster and remember the Barber/Foster/Laurence/Maloney (etc) era still having the NYR shield being part of the team identity. Trainers have it on t-shirts in early 70’s team photos but later they just have embroidered text and then (some form of) it appears on random coach/GM/Pres suit jackets. Did I miss something waybackwhen? All Time Rosters 1970’s – Kitchener Rangers
I think we wear blue helmets with our blue jerseys though the whole white/dark, home/away jersey tradition seems to have gone somewhat random these days. What dictates the choice ... the away team's traveling laundry situation?
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I don't know why they wear the red helmets but I love it. I think the look is way better than the New York white/blue helmets.
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Thats a Hunter I can support.
While the haul of pics for McDonnell was sweet...this signing just makes it even sweeter. Even in sell year the Rangers did have a decent playoff run in a noncontending yr.
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It's official.....
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I think it's great (arguably important) to add a quality 2004 to this team.
Adding another in Gauthier wouldn't be too bad either
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I think it's great (arguably important) to add a quality 2004 to this team.
Adding another in Gauthier wouldn't be too bad either
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Agreed! Brew-Stehv-Itch was more of an opportunity than a throw-in on the Declan deal, with the signing today we sent our 2nd & 4th round 2025 picks to Barrie. Great value add MM!
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With most of the conditions met on this deal, this deal turns into Declan Macdonell for Hunter B and a third round pick conditional on Macdonnell playing an overage season.
At the end of the day, I think we walk away with a win on this deal.
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