{"id":369907,"date":"2025-12-25T20:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T20:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/369907\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T20:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T20:05:09","slug":"bantering-points-12-25-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/369907\/","title":{"rendered":"Bantering Points: 12\/25\/25"},"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\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/jake.jpeg\" alt=\"Jake DiBlasio\"\/><br \/>\n                            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/bantering-points-image-29.jpeg\" alt=\"Bantering Points: 12\/25\/25\"\/><\/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\/rangers-vs-capitals-capitals-punishment\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Kohn examines<\/a> the Rangers&#8217; victory on the road against the Washington Capitals (BSB) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blueshirtbanter.com\/predicting-team-finland-roster-for-2026-milan-olympics\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Feldman<\/a>, Roberto Solis-Byxbee, and Chip23 try and predict Finland&#8217;s roster for the 2026 Winter Olympics (BSB) <\/p>\n<p>Rangers News: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/24\/sports\/theres-still-rangers-hope-to-be-had-but-the-clock-is-ticking-loudly\/?ref=blueshirtbanter.com\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mollie Walker talks<\/a> about the Rangers&#8217; payoff hopes still being alive but not by much (NY Post) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6915839\/2025\/12\/24\/rangers-quarter-century-roster\/?ref=blueshirtbanter.com\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Baugh and<\/a> Vincent Z. Mercogliano name the Blueshirts&#8217; quarter-century roster (The Athletic)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bluelinestation.com\/rangers-prospect-ej-emery-named-to-team-usa-roster-for-2026-world-juniors-01kd8pbbx1he?ref=blueshirtbanter.com\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Urtz Jr. discusses<\/a> 2024 first-round pick E. J. Emery being named to Team USA&#8217;s World Junior team (Blue Line Station) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehockeywriters.com\/3-gifts-the-new-york-rangers-should-be-asking-for-christmas\/?ref=blueshirtbanter.com\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lucas Standel lists<\/a> three gifts that should be on the Rangers&#8217; Christmas list for the remainder of the season (THW) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsday.com\/sports\/hockey\/rangers\/rangers-takeaways-axlssvrx?ref=blueshirtbanter.com\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Collin Stephenson provides<\/a> three takeaways for the Rangers ahead of the holiday break (NewsDay) <\/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\/nhl\/article\/canadiens-alexandre-texier-ruled-out-vs-bruins-with-upper-body-injury\/?ref=blueshirtbanter.com\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Montreal Canadiens forward<\/a> Alexandre Texier suffered an upper-body injury against the Boston Bruins (SportsNet) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6917710\/2025\/12\/24\/team-usa-2026-world-juniors-roster-cuts\/?ref=blueshirtbanter.com\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Team USA has finalized<\/a> their roster for the 2026 World Juniors and looks at who just missed out on the roster (The Athletic) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/topic\/world-junior-championship\/world-junior-championship-2026-schedule-results-television-tv?ref=blueshirtbanter.com\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Here is the schedule<\/a> for the 2026 World Junior Championship, with the games beginning December 26th (NHL.com) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/nhl\/article\/report-goalie-marc-andre-fleury-open-to-comeback\/?ref=blueshirtbanter.com\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Recently retired goaltender<\/a> Marc-Andre Fleury is reportedly open to coming out of retirement for the right situation (SportsNet) <\/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":369908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-369907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}