{"id":465068,"date":"2026-02-12T23:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T23:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/465068\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T23:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T23:12:11","slug":"bantering-points-2-12-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/465068\/","title":{"rendered":"Bantering Points: 2\/12\/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\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/jake.jpeg\" alt=\"Jake DiBlasio\"\/><br \/>\n                            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/bantering-points-image-10.jpeg\" alt=\"Bantering Points: 2\/12\/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-milan-olympics-team-finland-preview\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Feldman, Chip23,<\/a> and Roberto Solis-Byxbee take a look at how their Team Finland predictions aged for the 2026 Milan Olympics (BSB)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blueshirtbanter.com\/2026-milan-olympics-team-czechia-preview\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Feldman, Chip23,<\/a> and Roberto Solis-Byxbee compare who they thought would be on Team Czechia compared to the actual roster (BSB)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blueshirtbanter.com\/2026-milan-olympics-team-sweden-preview\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Feldman, Chip23<\/a>, and Roberto Solis-Byxbee also examine how accurate their Team Sweden predictions were (BSB)<\/p>\n<p>Rangers News: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/11\/sports\/j-t-miller-expects-team-usa-role-to-be-familiar-at-2026-olympics\/?ref=blueshirtbanter.com\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mollie Walker discusses<\/a> what J.T. Miller&#8217;s role for Team USA at the 2026 Milan Olympics will look like (NY Post) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bluelinestation.com\/how-is-this-rangers-prospect-doing-in-his-first-season-in-the-ncaa-01kh43ae01xe?ref=blueshirtbanter.com\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Germinaro examines<\/a> how Rangers prospect Malcom Spence is playing in the NCAA (Blue Line Station) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bluelinestation.com\/mika-zibanejad-s-rangers-resurgence-is-definitely-evident-in-sweden-s-dominant-olympic-opener-01kh7exy97k5?ref=blueshirtbanter.com\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Urtz Jr. talks about<\/a> Mika Zibanejad&#8217;s multipoint game for Team Sweden against Team Italy (Blue Line Station) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehockeywriters.com\/5-forgotten-new-york-rangers-from-the-last-rebuild\/?ref=blueshirtbanter.com\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lucas Standel takes<\/a> a look at five forgotten Blueshirts from the team&#8217;s most recent rebuild (THW) <\/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\/slafkovsky-sparks-slovakia-past-finland-to-open-mens-olympic-hockey-tournament\/?ref=blueshirtbanter.com\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In the first men&#8217;s hockey<\/a> game of the 2026 Milan Olympics, Slovakia came away with the victory, upsetting Finland (SportsNet)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/olympic-men-hockey\/article\/sweden-ekes-out-first-win-in-olympic-mens-hockey-over-italy\/?ref=blueshirtbanter.com\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Team Sweden won<\/a> their first game of the tournament against Team Italy (SportsNet) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/juniors\/article\/penn-state-mckenna-will-continue-to-participate-in-all-hockey-activities\/?ref=blueshirtbanter.com\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Penn State hockey<\/a> player Gavin McKenna will continue to play for the team despite facing assault charges (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":465069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-465068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465068","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=465068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}