The Rangers have released the roster for the Traverse City Prospects tournament, to be held in Detroit in September. The roster includes 12 forwards, 8 defensemen, and 2 goalies. Of these 22 players, there are 3 that are undrafted free agents. The players attending the tournament include (undrafted free agents are italicized):

Forwards:
Ryan Bourque, Evgeny Grachev, Roman Horak, Colin Martin, Chris McKelvie, Randy McNaught, Brendan Shinnimin, Derek Stepan, Christian Thomas, Ethan Werek, Jason Wilson, Andrew Yogan

Defense:
Lee Baldwin, Sam Klassen, Tomas Kundratek, Dan Maggio, Brandon Manning, Ryan McDonagh, Dylan McIlrath, Jyri Niemi

Goaltenders:
Scott Stajcer, Cam Talbot

Unfortunately, the NHL Network will not be showing any of the tournament this year, preferring to show us re-runs of the 2010 Stanley Cup playoffs instead. It would have been nice to see how prospects that are clearly the future of the organization (Grachev, Werek, Stepan, Bourque, Thomas, Kundratek, McDonagh, McIlrath) played with each other. We will have to rely on those attending the tournament to feed us information though. What we do know, is that this Rangers team is very, very strong.

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