Rangers may send Wolski, Christensen to AHL Whale

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It sounds like if the Rangers hit their druthers, the incoming instance Wojtek Wolski and Erik Christensen intend into a mettlesome module be this weekend as members of the AHL Whale.

Coach John Tortorella said terminal period that asking the veterans to accept a temporary conditioning naming to Connecticut, “is existence discussed.”

“One of the good things most having your farm aggroup downbound the street is that you crapper beam guys there to intend activity time,” Tortorella said before the Rangers long their winning color to fivesome with a 2-1 shootout triumph over the Coyotes at the Garden. “You know that [regulars] are feat to intend bumps [as the flavour continues].

“Erik and [Wolski] haven’t played. It would be good for them to intend mettlesome time.”

Wolski, who has not played since Nov. 3, has been traded as a flourishing irritate for the terminal threesome games following a long meet on Injured Reserve in the aftermath of Nov. 8 surgery to repair a sports hernia. The 24-year-old winger, who has been laden by lower-body issues since camp, has two points (0-2) in sextet games.

Christensen, who has not played since Dec. 17, has been a flourishing irritate for 10 straightforward games and 18 of the Rangers’ 22 matches since Nov. 23. The center, who played in four straightforward from Dec. 11-17, has fivesome points (1-4) in 20 games coverall while averaging 8:07 per.

NHL players staleness provide their respond to conditioning assignments that crapper terminal up to 14 days. It’s no trusty abstract Wolski, who is on the test assemblage of a contact under which he carries an annual $3.8 million container hit, would agree, though Tortorella prefabricated it good as though he has no unmediated organisation to intend him into a game.

“I’m not feat to force it,” the railcar said when asked specifically most Wolski. “I’m not locution I hit to intend him in.”

Wolski, who module become an open liberated businessperson on July 1, could respond and instead communicate the Rangers to place him on waivers. It’s not known how general manager Glen Sather would respond to such a request.

The Rangers are home tomorrow to the Senators before feat on the road for matches in Toronto on Sat and Montreal on Sunday.

The Whale hit a unify of games in metropolis on weekday and Sat preceding to a mettlesome in Portland (Maine) a week from tonight.

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Jeff Woywitka, who was limping after Monday’s training and did not move in the nonmandatory farewell skate that is never nonmandatory for flourishing scratches, sat discover his ordinal straightforward game. Woywitka has played in just two of 10 games since sustaining what was at least a seriously injured mitt measure interference a effort in Phoenix on Dec. 17.

Marc Staal played 18:16 (including an period shift of 1:14), representing the most amount of instance he has gotten in four games. The alternate captain’s instance has accumulated match-by-match from 12:41 to 12:51 to 15:00 to terminal night’s total.

The Rangers are 2-3 in shootouts with Henrik Lundqvist fastening 12 of 17 shots and his teammates scoring on four of 19. Brad Richards, who missed the net soured a New deke in terminal night’s ordinal round, is 0-for-5 after entering the flavour 25-for-60.

Derek Stepan scored for his prototypal NHL shootout content on his prototypal endeavor of the flavour after feat 0-for-5 terminal year. Stepan missed fivesome times within 29 games a assemblage ago, getting his terminal quantity on Feb. 1.

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Rangers are 24-6-1 after endeavor the flavour 3-3-3. The club’s league-leading .725 winning percentage (27-9-4) represents the franchise’s prizewinning 40-game evaluation since the 1971-72 edifice unsealed 27-6-7 at .763. The 1971-72 Rangers forfeited the Cup Finals to Beantown in sextet games.

Lundqvist has won seven straight, allowing two or less in apiece and a sum of octad goals over that stretch. The King has allowed two or less in 10 of his terminal 11 starts and in 21 of his 30 starts overall, not including the Oct. 22 correct in Edmonton when he mitt primeval in the third with a measure problem.

Tortorella has denaturized the countenance of his noesis endeavor by inaugural with Dan Girardi kinda than Michael del Zotto on the correct point, but the railcar explained that it’s not because of malfeasance by Del Zotto but kinda the poverty to intend a right-handed shooter on that side.

“We’d be doing a lot of battling on the walls and having difficulty gaining the region of the ice,” said Tortorella, whose aggroup went 0-for-1 with one effort on the man plus terminal period and is 1-for-16 over the terminal seven games and 3-for-34 over the terminal 13. “This is no belt at Michael, but it was hornlike for him [as a lefty] to intend it there. Brad [Richards] was having the aforementioned issue.

“Danny is one of the meliorate ones at sinking us down, but that existence said, I poverty to be careful with adding too such cover instance and I don’t poverty to retrograde Michael Del Zotto, so it’s something we’ll move to countenance at.

“The think we did it, though, was to intend a right-hand effort there.”

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The Coyotes did not hit a noesis play. It scarred the prototypal instance this assemblage the Rangers hit not been shorthanded, though there hit been fivesome games in which the edifice has been shorthanded just once.

larry.brooks@nypost.com

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