The New York Rangers announced their rookie squad for the Traverse City rookie tournament on Monday, which will start this weekend. I'm going to try and add most of the rookie camp teams, that way I have the names already on the list for training camp. Maybe highlight some of the names I'll be looking for when the recaps of games start to roll in.| Forwards | Defense | Goalies |
| Marian Gaborik | Michael Del Zotto | Henrik Lundqvist |
| Vaclav Prospal | Dan Girardi | Martin Biron |
| Alexander Frolov | Michal Rozsival | |
| Brandon Dubinsky | Steve Eminger | |
| Ryan Callahan | Matt Gilroy | |
| Chris Drury | Wade Redden | |
| Sean Avery | ||
| Artem Anisimov | ||
| Tim Kennedy | ||
| Erik Christensen | ||
| Todd White | ||
| Brandon Prust | ||
| Brian Boyle | ||
| Derek Boogaard | ||
| Jason Bast | Lee Baldwin | Scott Stajcer |
| Ryan Bourque | Sam Klassen | Cam Talbot |
| Evgeny Grachev | Tomas Kundratek | |
| Roman Horak | Dan Maggio | |
| Chris McKelvie | Brandon Manning | |
| Randy McNaught | Dylan McIlrath | |
| Brendan Shinnimin | Ryan McDonagh | |
| Derek Stepan | Jyri Niemi | |
| Kelsey Tessler | ||
| Christian Thomas | ||
| Ethan Werek | ||
| Jason Wilson | ||
| Andrew Yogan |
A lot of these kids are fresh draft picks, getting their licks in with the big club, some of which don't even have their entry-level deals signed. Nevertheless, this is a good experience for the lot of them and this tournament has seen some solid NHLers pass through already.The players that I'm looking for to breakthrough a bit are Evgeni Grachev and Derek Stepan up front and Ryan McDonagh and Lee Baldwin at the back. Both goalies don't really excite me, but I'm sure there is a spot in the training camp roster up for grabs for one of them at the very least. I'm very curious to see what Ryan Bourque and Christian Thomas have to offer out of their NHL pedigree, but expectations are low this year, as they are still really fresh faces.
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