Henrik Lundqvist:

On playing against and with the cops and firemen:
“It was fun. They’re not bad. Some guys are pretty skilled. It was a great practice.”

That Torts took such pleasure in seeing some of them score on him:
“Yeah (laughs).
“The thing when you play guys, you never know who’s going to be really skilled and who’s not as skilled. So it’s hard to know what to expect. But it’s definitely a good thing to do. Torts told us yesterday that we were doing it and it was fun. Talking to some of the guys who were in the firefighter championship a couple of weeks ago. They skate probably two three times a week. Not bad. It was fun.”

Did Torts tell him to ease up?
“A little bit, yeah (laughs). But it’s hard to not compete. But that was pretty much the message.”

Told some of them celebrated their goals like Vinny Prospal, Lundqvist said, “Yeah. I would, too.”
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Here’s the Rangers’ roster for the 1 p.m. rookie game at Newark (many, if not all of these players will be assigned to junior or minor teams tonight or tomorrow):

84    AUDY-MARCHESSAULT    JONATHAN
41    BICKEL    STU
60    BOURQUE    RYAN
64    HICKMOTT    JORDAN
72    KLASSEN    SAM
65    KUNDRATEK    TOMAS
83    MCCOLGAN    SHANE
73    MCILRATH    DYLAN
47    MILLER    JT
98    MISSIAEN    JASON
75    NIEMI    JYRI
79    NOREAU    SAM
78    RUST    MATT
57    ST. CROIX    MICHAEL
96    STAJCER    SCOTT
91    TANSKI    SCOTT
67    TESSIER    KELSEY
58    THOMAS    CHRISTIAN
48    WILSON    JASON
49    YOGAN    ANDREW