{"id":163341,"date":"2025-09-23T11:30:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T11:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/163341\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T11:30:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T11:30:13","slug":"the-almost-ranger-who-now-could-answer-a-crucial-defense-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/163341\/","title":{"rendered":"The almost-Ranger who now could answer a crucial defense question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was 12 and a half years ago, and the Rangers were looking to add depth on the right side of the defense down the stretch of the truncated 2012-13 season.<\/p>\n<p>A young man named Andrej Sustr was coming out of college as a 22-year-old, and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2013\/03\/19\/rangers-expected-to-make-run-at-college-defenseman-sustr\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Blueshirts were all-in<\/a>. They thought they had the 6-foot-7 righty.<\/p>\n<p>But they did not.<\/p>\n<p>Sustr, a native of Plzen, Czechia, who had played one year in the NAHL and one year in the USHL before spending two seasons at Nebraska-Omaha, instead signed with the Lightning, who apparently presented a greater opportunity for the young defenseman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was 12 and a half years ago, and the Rangers were looking to add depth on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,3617,575,15011,85,735],"class_list":["post-163341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl","tag-post-sports-newsletters","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}