{"id":268355,"date":"2025-11-07T19:05:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T19:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/268355\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T19:05:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T19:05:20","slug":"rangers-rookie-jaroslav-chmelar-to-make-nhl-debut-friday-vs-red-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/268355\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers rookie Jaroslav Chmelar to make NHL debut Friday vs. Red Wings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 22-year-old Chmela\u0159 was drafted by the Rangers in the fifth round, 144th overall in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Chmela\u0159, a Czech native, played college hockey for the Providence Friars, and spent the last couple of seasons with the AHL&#8217;s Hartford Wolfpack, New York&#8217;s affiliate. In 87 AHL appearances, Chmela\u0159 put up 16 goals and 20 assists.<\/p>\n<p>Internationally, Chmela\u0159 represented Czech at the World Junior Hockey Championships in 2022 and 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Chmela\u0159 and the Rangers will look to make ground in the Metropolitan Division, where they are in a three-way tie for last.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/32-Thoughts-podcast-Elliotte-Friedman-Kyle-Bukauskas-640x360.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"32 Thoughts: The Podcast\"\/>32 Thoughts: The Podcast<\/p>\n<p>Hockey fans already know the name, but this is not the blog. From Sportsnet, 32 Thoughts: The Podcast with NHL Insider Elliotte Friedman and Kyle Bukauskas is a weekly deep dive into the biggest news and interviews from the hockey world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/podcasts\/32-thoughts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Latest episode<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 22-year-old Chmela\u0159 was drafted by the Rangers in the fifth round, 144th overall in 2021. Chmela\u0159, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-268355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}