{"id":77138,"date":"2025-08-12T12:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T12:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/77138\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T12:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T12:31:10","slug":"why-rangers-may-have-turned-corner-after-years-of-draft-misses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/77138\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Rangers may have turned corner after years of draft misses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the Rangers <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/01\/sports\/rangers-trade-kandre-miller-as-roster-makeover-continues\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shipped K\u2019Andre Miller<\/a>, their No. 22 overall pick in 2018, to Carolina on July 1, the organization was officially flushed of every single one of the six first-round draft picks it made from 2017 to 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The No. 7 overall pick in 2017, Lias Andersson, was traded to the Kings in Oct. 2020 after the young Swede struggled to acclimate overseas in every way.<\/p>\n<p>Filip Chytil, chosen 14 spots later, was packaged and sent to Vancouver for J.T. Miller this past season once the Blueshirts weighed <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/04\/22\/sports\/why-did-rangers-keep-using-players-who-werent-healthy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the uncertainty of his extensive concussion history<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Vitali Kravtsov, the Rangers\u2019 ninth overall selection in 2018, was sent to Vancouver in Feb. 2023 after a saga that included refusing an AHL assignment, a slew of injuries and unimpressive play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After the Rangers shipped K\u2019Andre Miller, their No. 22 overall pick in 2018, to Carolina on July 1,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[11556,16679,54593,4823,385,4892,99,358,54594],"class_list":["post-77138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-inside-the-rangers","tag-kandre-miller","tag-kaapo-kakko","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl","tag-post-sports-newsletters","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-vitali-kravtsov"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77138","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=77138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}