MOSCOW, June 12 Russian striker Vitaly Kravtsov signed a contract with the National Hockey Club League (NHL) “New York Rangers”, said in his Twitter player agent Dan Milstein. The contract is one-sided. According to journalist Elliott Friedman, Kravtsov will earn $875,000. Drafted ninth overall by the New York team in the first round in 2018, Kravtsov is leaving for the United States for the third time. In 2019, he signed a three-year contract with the Rangers. In the 2019/20 season, he failed to gain a foothold in the first team and played 39 games in the Blueshirts farm club in the American Hockey League (AHL), where he scored 15 points (6 goals + 9 assists), after which he returned on loan in the Chelyabinsk «Tractor», which is a pupil. Kravtsov started the 2020/21 season at Traktor, but left for the United States again in April, where he played 20 games for the Rangers and scored 4 points (2+2). Kravtsov also spent the past season on loan at Traktor «. He played 34 matches in which he scored 23 points (13+10).
