{"id":677156,"date":"2026-05-17T18:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T18:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/677156\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T18:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T18:07:09","slug":"bantering-points-5-17-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/677156\/","title":{"rendered":"Bantering Points: 5\/17\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <a class=\"gh-article-tag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blueshirtbanter.com\/tag\/bantering-points\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bantering Points<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gh-article-excerpt is-body\">Your morning round-up of the latest from Blueshirt Banter, Rangers News, and updates from around the NHL<\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blueshirtbanter.com\/author\/jake\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-profile-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/jake.jpeg\" alt=\"Jake DiBlasio\"\/><br \/>\n                            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/bantering-points-image-14.jpeg\" alt=\"Bantering Points: 5\/17\/26\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Here are today&#8217;s news and links:<\/p>\n<p>From Blueshirt Banter:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blueshirtbanter.com\/2026-rangers-report-card-jonny-brodzinski\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chip23 takes a <\/a>look at Jonny Brodzinski&#8217;s performance over the course of the season with the Rangers (BSB) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blueshirtbanter.com\/2026-elimination-eval-anaheim-ducks\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Feldman talks<\/a> about what led to the Anaheim Ducks&#8217; loss and what comes next (BSB) <\/p>\n<p>Rangers News: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bluelinestation.com\/igor-shesterkin-is-among-the-biggest-winners-of-a-quiet-rule-change-on-the-nhl-books-01krqg8vg0st?ref=blueshirtbanter.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Urtz Jr. discusses<\/a> how the new collective bargaining agreement rules impact Igor Shesterkin&#8217;s contract (Blue Line Station) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nhl\/rangers\/onsi\/news\/ny-rangers-have-clear-biggest-need-to-address-in-nhl-draft?ref=blueshirtbanter.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kenneth Teape explains<\/a> why the Blueshirts must address their need for a center at this year&#8217;s draft (Sports Illustrated) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nhl\/rangers\/onsi\/news\/analyzing-pros-and-cons-of-ny-rangers-trading-vincent-trocheck?ref=blueshirtbanter.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Ziegler analyzes <\/a>the reasons for and the reasons against trading Vincent Trocheck this offseason (Sports Illustrated) <\/p>\n<p>                    Sign up for Blueshirt Banter<\/p>\n<p class=\"kg-signup-card-subheading\" style=\"color: #000000;\">The top destination for New York Rangers fans\u2014news, trade rumors, stats, podcasts, and in-depth analysis from the trusted Blueshirt Banter team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kg-signup-card-disclaimer\" style=\"color: #000000;\">No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.<\/p>\n<p>        Around the NHL: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/whc\/article\/switzerland-beats-u-s-in-opener-for-both-teams-at-world-hockey-championship\/?ref=blueshirtbanter.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Team Switzerland <\/a>defeated Team USA during the opener for both teams at the IIHF World Championship (SportsNet)  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/whc\/article\/celebrini-scores-pair-to-lead-canada-over-italy-at-mens-hockey-worlds\/?ref=blueshirtbanter.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Team Canada took<\/a> down Team Italy during the IIHF World Championship by a score of 6-0 (SportsNet) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/article\/wild-vets-brodin-eriksson-ek-each-had-broken-foot-that-kept-them-out-of-playoff-series-loss-to-avs\/?ref=blueshirtbanter.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Wild skaters <\/a>Jonas Brodin and Joel Eriksson Ek dealt with a broken foot against the Colorado Avalanche (TSN) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bantering Points Your morning round-up of the latest from Blueshirt Banter, Rangers News, and updates from around the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-677156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677156","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=677156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}