RANGERS TRIM ROSTER TO 27 PLAYERS

Monday, September 27^th New York Rangers President and General Manager Glen Sather announced the following:

PLAYERS RELEASED FROM TRYOUT AGREEMENTS ON 9/27:

Defense (3): Garnet Exelby, Brandon Manning, Alexei Semenov

PLAYERS ASSIGNED TO HARTFORD (AHL) 9/27:

Goal (1): Chad Johnson

Defense (1): Wade Redden

Forward (6): Dane Byers*, Evgeny Grachev, Kris Newbury*, Dale Weise, Jeremy Williams*, Mats Zuccarello

* Player must clear waivers prior to being assigned to Hartford

PLAYERS STILL IN NEW YORK RANGERS TRAINING CAMP:

Goal (2): Martin Biron, Henrik Lundqvist

Defense (9): Michael Del Zotto, Steve Eminger, Matt Gilroy, Dan Girardi, Ryan McDonagh, Michal Rozsival, Michael Sauer, Marc Staal, Pavel Valentenko

Forward (16): Artem Anisimov, Sean Avery, Derek Boogaard, Brian Boyle, Ryan Callahan, Erik Christensen, Chris Drury, Brandon Dubinsky, Ruslan Fedotenko*, Alexander Frolov, Marian Gaborik, Tim Kennedy, Vinny Prospal, Brandon Prust, Derek Stepan, Todd White

* Player on a tryout agreement