{"id":211484,"date":"2021-03-26T07:35:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T04:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/rangers-have-room-to-maneuver-on-the-goalie-front\/"},"modified":"2021-03-26T07:35:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T04:35:16","slug":"rangers-have-room-to-maneuver-on-the-goalie-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/rangers-have-room-to-maneuver-on-the-goalie-front\/","title":{"rendered":"#Rangers have room to maneuver on the goalie front"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Rangers have room to maneuver on the goalie front<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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The Rangers have room to maneuver so Keith Kinkaid could be the club\u2019s alternate starter to Igor Shesterkin even if Kinkaid spends most of his time on the taxi squad while Alexandar Georgiev dresses regularly as the club\u2019s backup.<\/p>\n

A need for an alternate will arise this weekend with back-to-back game<\/a>s in Philadelphia on Saturday and Washington on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Shesterkin, who returned to action for Thursday\u2019s 8-3 win at Philadelphia after missing 10 games rehabbing the groin strain he sustained March 4, would not be expected to go back-to-back for the first time this season and the second time in his NHL career.<\/p>\n

Georgiev is 5-5-2 with a 2.92 goals-against average and .897 save percentage in 13 starts plus one relief outing. Kinkaid is 3-1-1 in five starts, with an overall 2.22 GAA and .908 save percentage, including a pair of relief app<\/a>earances since he was recalled in the wake of Shesterkin\u2019s injury.<\/p>\n

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Kinkaid has been on the NHL roster for 20 days (Thanks, CapFriendly). Having cleared waivers at the start of the season, he is immune to being placed on waivers again until he reaches 31 days on the Rangers\u2019 roster.<\/p>\n

So it will be rather simple to promote the 31-year-old Kinkaid from the taxi squad for only those games he starts. Unless he starts 11 of the club\u2019s final 24 games, there would be no issue \u2026 and if there is a reason he is needed to start that many, there would be another more substantial issue to address.<\/p>\n

If the Rangers are up against it on the 23-man roster by carrying three goaltenders for game days, they could dispatch Shesterkin to the taxi squad while dressing Georgiev as Kinkaid\u2019s backup. Shesterkin is waivers-exempt, while Georgiev would require waivers in order to be sent to the taxi squad or Hartford.<\/p>\n

The roster situation will only last through April 11, however, as roster limits cease to exist following the April 12 trade deadline.<\/p>\n

The AHL Wolf Pack shifted 22-year-old Morgan Barron from left wing to center for Thursday afternoon\u2019s 4-2 victory over Providence, in which the Cornell product scored his sixth and seventh goals in Hartford\u2019s 11th game. Pivots Jonny Brodzinksi and Gabriel Fontaine were both sidelined with injuries. The organization also wanted to get a look at the 6-foot-2, 210-pounder in the middle after he had spent the year on the flank.<\/p>\n

If the Rangers can accommodate his cap hit of a full-season $925,000 plus an $850,000 bonus package after Vitali Kravtsov is added to the roster, Barron would be a leading candidate for promotion once the roster max has been lifted.<\/p>\n