{"id":883360,"date":"2026-10-15T16:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T16:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/883360\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T16:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T16:34:14","slug":"how-vladislav-gavrikov-emerged-as-rangers-offensive-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/883360\/","title":{"rendered":"How Vladislav Gavrikov emerged as Rangers offensive weapon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rangers acquired Vladislav Gavrikov for his minutes-guzzling abilities and shutdown defenseman tendencies.<\/p>\n<p>The borderline offensive weapon he\u2019s become since his first season in New York, however, is an underrated bonus the Blueshirts are reaping.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was out west for a bit, so you don\u2019t really get to watch those guys,\u201d his D partner Adam Fox told Sports+ after <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/10\/13\/sports\/rangers-roll-past-lightning-to-remain-undefeated-at-msg\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tuesday\u2019s win at Madison Square Garden<\/a>. \u201cObviously, we knew what he could bring defensively, but he\u2019s got that offensive game to him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he\u2019s pretty smart with his ability to make plays and even put pucks to the net. I think he gets a lot of goals, a lot of backdoor looks, just finding those lanes. It\u2019s fun for me to play sometimes with the blue line give-and-goes with him and stuff like that. He\u2019s had a couple tip goals and stuff like that. I think his defensive game\u2019s really good, and that offensive side is obviously coming out more often.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rangers acquired Vladislav Gavrikov for his minutes-guzzling abilities and shutdown defenseman tendencies. The borderline offensive weapon he\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":883361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[35717,11556,4823,385,4892,99,358,271669],"class_list":["post-883360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-adam-fox","tag-inside-the-rangers","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl","tag-post-sports-newsletters","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-vladislav-gavrikov"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883360","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=883360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/883361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}