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20
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0 of 20 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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The defensive pairing that began the Rangers season opener in the spotlight because of Alberts Smits’ debut ended up back in it by the final minutes with Braden Schneider’s blunder.
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that → begin → blunder
As the three Blueshirts forwards changed late in the third period of their 3-0 loss to the Bruins on Tuesday, Schneider ended up alone on the rush and got burned by a JJ Peterka deke that went between the defenseman’s legs.
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tRY IT NOWPeterka ripped a shot past Igor Shesterkin, and 52 seconds after Boston broke a scoreless tie, the Bruins doubled their lead — with Schneider’s gaffe emerging as one of the lasting images of the night.
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gaffe → change → night
“You get that shift and you get caught out there a little too long,” Schneider told The Post on Wednesday after the Rangers practiced in Tarrytown.
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Rangers → get → Tarrytown
“I get caught with a bad gap, and, I mean, I made a bad read.
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I → catch → read
Not much you can do.
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you → do → ?
He made a good play and just try to move on from it.
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He → make → it
It marked a rough start to a critical campaign for Schneider, who was a restricted free agent at the end of last season and returned to the Rangers on a one-year deal.
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who → mark → deal
Next summer, he’ll likely be in the same position again, and he expressed a desire to move past his individual woes last season — when he was thrust into a larger role with Adam Fox’s injury and ended up being on the ice for a Blueshirts-worst 63 goals at 5-on-5 — in an interview with The Post’s Mollie Walker on Tuesday.
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he → express → Tuesday
But the Schneider and Smits pairing will continue to face plenty of critique.
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pairing → continue → critique
For Schneider, it’ll revolve around his Rangers future still being uncertain.
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future → revolve → Schneider
And for Smits, who skated 16:54 while recording two hits, a blocked shot and a pair of giveaways, it’ll be for gauging whether the 18-year-old and No. 5 overall pick in June’s draft encounters any growing pains.
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old → skate → pains
“I thought when the game started, it was happening fast for him out there,” head coach Mike Sullivan said of Smits, “but I thought as the game went on he settled down. …
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he → think → Smits
I think when he gets himself in trouble is when he tries to do a little bit too much.
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he → think → much
Try to make a soft play to the middle, and that’s where sometimes you gotta make a simple play.
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you → try → play
“But I think as a young player, you’re gonna make those type of mistakes — and you’ll learn through those experiences, and our job is to try to help him do that.”
Defenseman Vincent Iorio, who was day to day with a lower-body injury, was assigned to AHL Hartford after clearing waivers.
That’ll give the Wolf Pack a blue line that includes Iorio, Urho Vaakanainen, Marc Del Gaizo, Dennis Cholowski and Drew Fortescue — a collection of players with 497 combined NHL games between the regular season and playoffs.
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that → think → season
When asked about the Rangers having a stretch of five games in eight days to open the season following a condensed training camp, and whether that’s a good thing, Sullivan said, “I’ll tell you after the five games.”
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I → ask → games
“If we can build some momentum and have some success,” Sullivan said, “we’re gonna like it, right? …
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we → build → it
I think it’s good in a way that it gets you in the routine right away.
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it → think → routine
You start playing games, and it’s hard to simulate that type of competitive action in a practice environment.
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it → start → environment
With a shortened training camp, I think it will give us an opportunity to build more of a conditioning — a fitness foundation for game situations.”
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it → shorten → situations