With an eye on getting their fourth-line going after a disjointed slow start, the New York Rangers recalled veteran forward Taylor Raddysh from Hartford of the American Hockey League on Friday and assigned 23-year-old Jaroslav Chmelar to their minor league affiliate.
As the New York Rangers enter their final preseason tuneup ahead of the 2026-27 NHL regular season against the New York Islanders, there are still a few questions about how their opening night roster is going to look.
As the New York Rangers move along in their condensed training camp, there are still a few questions that remain unanswered. The team has a few training camp battles that are ensuing, with a few spots available on the opening night roster.
Many of the New York Rangers’ top players underperformed or missed extended time with injuries last season. However, they played better in the second half of the season, and many of their young players brought energy and showed promise, including rookie wingers Jaroslav Chmelar and Adam Sykora.
People love a good mid-round draft pick that pans out, and in the NHL you used to see those fairly often, but that’s obviously partially luck. If the Red Wings thought Nicklas Lidstrom was going to become a top-five defenseman in history, they wouldn’t have waited until the 53rd pick to take him.
Monday in Switzerland, Jaroslav Chmelar provided the New York Rangers something more to think about when they consider their bottom-six forward options for next season.
New York Rangers forward Jaroslav Chmelar assisted on the winning goal Monday as Czechia upended Sweden 4-3 in their Preliminary Round game at the IIHF World Championship in Fribourg, Switzerland.
By the end of the 2025-26 season, the New York Rangers harbored hopes that two intriguing young forwards were ready to anchor a tone-setting fourth line, perhaps on a long-term basis.
The New York Rangers certainly aren’t viewed as the NHL standard when it comes to drafting and developing young players. However, their recent strategy of taking fliers on giant forwards in the late rounds of the NHL Draft is yielding promise that future contributors might emerge from that group.
Over the weekend, the Rangers recalled forward Jaroslav Chmelar and returned forward Brennan Othmann to the AHL. The move was made after Othmann had sat as a healthy scratch for most of the week, unable to hold down a spot over Conor Sheary or Taylor Raddysh.
People will talk about the “Mount Rushmore” for a franchise, which is to say the four people, usually four players, that most define the franchise. Not always the four-best players, but the four that evoke the essence of the franchise.
The New York Rangers have announced that top prospect Gabriel Perreault has been called up from AHL Hartford, while Jaroslav Chmelar is headed back down in a corresponding transaction.
Rangers prospect Jaroslav Chmelar, recalled earlier this week, will make his NHL debut tomorrow for the Rangers. He draws into the fourth line in place of Adam Edstrom tonight as Mike Sullivan threw all of the lines into a blender.
The Rangers lines tonight will remain largely unchanged. Jaroslav Chmelar, who was recalled the other day, is not going to break into the lineup. The only lineup change is on the blue line, where Matthew Robertson draws in for the injured Urho Vaakanainen.
The New York Rangers have swapped rookies on the NHL roster. They have recalled right-winger Jaroslav Chmelar from the AHL, while reassigning left-winger Brennan Othmann back to the minor-leagues.
Perhaps it was a glimpse into the New York Rangers future Friday night at XL Center in Hartford. Three Rangers prospects, including two of their most important, combined to score five goals in the Hartford Wolf Pack’s 6-5 win in their home opener against the Springfield Thunderbirds.
New York Rangers president and general manager Chris Drury has announced that the club has signed forward Jaroslav Chmelar to a three-year, entry-level contract.