“Play Like Mika”: The NY Rangers’ Filip Chytil

by Deb Seymour ~ December 15, 2022 Last season, when the NY Rangers’ bottom six was scuffling, head coach Gerard Gallant reportedly told third line center Filip Chytil that he should try to “play like Mika (Zibanejad).” That conversation, no matter how it actually unfolded in real life, seemed to be a catalyst for ChytilContinue reading ““Play Like Mika”: The NY Rangers’ Filip Chytil”

The NY Rangers: Both Deep and Shallow

by Deb Seymour ~ February 1, 2022 Remember when the goal for this NY Rangers season was to make the playoffs — but not necessarily to make a deep run? And not to play like the team did in the 2020 Toronto bubble in that awful play-in series — but to play at least aContinue reading “The NY Rangers: Both Deep and Shallow”

At 22 Years of Age, is this a Pivotal NHL Season for New York Rangers’ Center Filip Chytil?

by Deb Seymour ~ September 22, 2021 In a day and age in which 44-year-old Zdeno Chara landed a second and possibly final, career-bookending contract last week with the New York Islanders — after a lengthy NHL career spent with the Islanders (who had originally drafted him), the Ottawa Senators, the Boston Bruins, and theContinue reading “At 22 Years of Age, is this a Pivotal NHL Season for New York Rangers’ Center Filip Chytil?”