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6 days agoNY Islanders' Future Looks Brighter With Calum Ritchie's Next Step Coming
Calum Ritchie focuses on building from his rookie season experience to improve and secure a long-term role in the NHL.
The deal was a homerun for the Isles as they landed several key pieces to aid their retool. That trade, it seems, was so shrewd that it will now serve as a comp for another potential blockbuster trade this season. Insider Elliotte Friedman discussed during the January 24 edition of Saturday Headlines that the Islanders' crosstown rivals, the New York Rangers, could be using Nelson's trade as the model for the impending trade of Artemi Panarin.
"Fortunate bounce there, I just tried to jam it," Ritchie said. "Tony tried to find me down low, Lee got a touch on it. It's too hard to get your body around it and put it in, so I tried to just get it in the net."