{"id":529294,"date":"2026-03-17T19:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/529294\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T19:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:07:10","slug":"what-rangers-hope-to-find-with-adam-edstrom-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/529294\/","title":{"rendered":"What Rangers hope to find with Adam Edstr\u00f6m experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It should have dawned on me that a change was afoot when I saw Mika Zibanejad giving Adam Edstr\u00f6m pointers in the faceoff circle at Rangers practice in Minnesota on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Certain players who don\u2019t usually take faceoffs occasionally practice them anyway, just in case their centerman is thrown out of the circle during a game.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t say I can recall Edstr\u00f6m putting in as much work on draws as he did that day. Granted, prior to Saturday, he had taken just seven faceoffs over 91 career NHL games.<\/p>\n<p>Lo and behold, the Big Swede <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/15\/sports\/towering-adam-edstrom-impresses-during-rangers-experiment-at-center\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">centered the fourth line<\/a> in Saturday\u2019s 4-2 win over the Wild.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It should have dawned on me that a change was afoot when I saw Mika Zibanejad giving Adam&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[11556,11558,11559,4823,385,4892,99,358],"class_list":["post-529294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-inside-the-rangers","tag-mika-zibanejad","tag-mike-sullivan-nhl","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl","tag-post-sports-newsletters","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529294","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=529294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}