MOSCOW, Sep 22 National Hockey League (NHL) Club Head Coach » New York Rangers Gerard Gallant announced that Russian forward Vitaly Kravtsov will begin pre-season training with striker Artemy Panarin. In June, the club from New York signed a unilateral one-season contract with 22-year-old Kravtsov. Also starting training camp with Panarin and Kravtsov is forward Vincent Trochek, who joined the team in the off-season. told him that he has a chance. We want him to become a good hockey player and play in our team. The reports that I received from everyone who is present here have been positive,» Gallan said during a press conference. Other lines are as follows: Chris Kreider — Mika Zibanejad — Sammy Blaze, Alexis Lafrenier — Philip Khytil — Kaapo Kakko. Kravtsov, drafted by the New York team in 2018 in the first round under the ninth overall number, went to play in the USA 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).
