{"id":478554,"date":"2026-02-19T20:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T20:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/478554\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T20:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T20:58:12","slug":"bantering-points-2-19-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/478554\/","title":{"rendered":"Bantering Points: 2\/19\/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-17.jpeg\" alt=\"Bantering Points: 2\/19\/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\/mtps-montre-all-in-on-a-player-who-is-tro-checked-out\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chip23 takes a look<\/a> at a possible trade with the Montreal Canadiens centered around Vincent Trocheck (BSB)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blueshirtbanter.com\/olympic-hockey-day-7-recap-slovakia-cruises-as-canada-finland-usa-all-win-in-ot-to-advance-to-final-four\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake DiBlasio has you<\/a> covered for all that took place on day seven of the 2026 Milan Olympics men\u2019s hockey games (BSB)<\/p>\n<p>Rangers News: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/17\/sports\/team-usa-challenge-about-to-get-even-harder-j-t-miller-vincent-trocheck\/?ref=blueshirtbanter.com\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mollie Walker details<\/a> the road ahead for Vincent Trocheck and J.T. Miller at the 2026 Milan Olympics (NY Post) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/18\/sports\/alexis-lafreniere-opens-up-to-the-post-about-the-rangers-brutal-reality\/?ref=blueshirtbanter.com\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Botte discusses<\/a> Alexis Lafreni\u00e8re&#8217;s comments on the struggles he has faced this season (NY Post) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7053834\/2026\/02\/18\/rangers-olympic-check-in-zibanejad-miller-trocheck\/?ref=blueshirtbanter.com\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Baugh examines<\/a> how Rangers players are performing at the 2026 Milan Olympics (The Athletic) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7054843\/2026\/02\/18\/madison-square-garden-sports-knicks-rangers-spinning-off\/?ref=blueshirtbanter.com\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Vorkunov talks about<\/a> the possibility of Madison Square Garden splitting the Rangers and New York Knicks into separate companies (The Athletic)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehockeywriters.com\/3-rangers-who-must-be-dealt-by-the-trade-deadline\/?ref=blueshirtbanter.com\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lucas Standel names<\/a> three Blueshirts who must be moved before this season&#8217;s trade deadline (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\/canada-captain-sidney-crosby-exits-quarterfinal-vs-czechia-with-injury\/?ref=blueshirtbanter.com\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Team Canada captain<\/a> Sidney Crosby will receive an MRI to evaluate if he could return to the tournament (SportsNet)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/nhl\/article\/ducks-g-petr-mrazek-undergoes-hip-surgery-out-for-season\/?ref=blueshirtbanter.com\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anaheim Ducks goaltender<\/a> Petr Mrazek will miss the remainder of the season after undergoing hip surgery (SportsNet) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/olympics\/article\/mcdavid-ties-olympics-points-record\/?ref=blueshirtbanter.com\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Team Canada forward<\/a> Connor McDavid has tied the record for points in a single Olympics with 11 (TSN) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/article\/coffey-returns-to-oilers-coaching-staff\/?ref=blueshirtbanter.com\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Edmonton Oilers<\/a> have announced that Paul Coffey will return to the team&#8217;s coaching staff (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":478555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-478554","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\/478554","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=478554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}