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Artemi Panarin, Filip Chytil latest injuries for Rangers in preseason

Just as one Injury scare blew over for the Rangers, two more popped up.

Ahead of the Blueshirts’ second exhibition game against the Islanders on Tuesday at Madison Square Garden, Mika Zibanejad was a full participant during practice with the club’s non-game group in Tarrytown.

The Rangers’ No. 1 center left practice Sunday morning with an upper-body injury and then skated in a red non-contact jersey the following day.

Star left wing Artemi Panarin, however, did not practice Tuesday morning due to a lower-body injury.

Additionally, Filip Chytil left the ice early with an upper-body injury.

“We’re hoping day-to-day,” head coach Peter Laviolette said of Panarin and Chytil. “Just in general, I think with exhibition games, I think you want to just err on the side of caution and keep guys healthy.”

Zibanejad was being held out of Tuesday night’s contest after Laviolette made it clear there would be no rush to get the Swede into game action.

Artemi Panarin is dealing with a lower-body injury for the Rangers.Charles Wenzelberg / New York Post

Laviolette noted that his goal is to see the veteran players play three games in the preseason.

Other players, particularly younger ones, will likely play around four, Laviolette said.

“I definitely see more in those [exhibition] games, even if they’re scrimmages,” Laviolette said.

“So, from an evaluation standpoint, I said that when I started camp on why I did it the way that I did it. I think that you see the most inside of a game against another opponent. I think you see the most in a scrimmage, if the scrimmage is competitive against your own team. And then in practice, you get to see skill in drills and stuff like that, which is good.”

Filip Chytil is hurt for the Rangers this preseason.AP

Goalie Igor Shesterkin is expected to start in the first preseason game at MSG, with Dylan Garand backing him up.

Jonathan Quick and Louis Domingue, who had a combined effort in net for the preseason opening 3-0 loss in Boston, were at practice at MSG Training center on Tuesday.

“There’s a plan in place for these guys,” Laviolette said of his goalies. “As it progresses, you’ll start to see – we got the back-to-back coming up so it might be still split a little bit – more of our guys as camp moves on in the lineup together.

“With regard to Jonathan and Igor, they’ll work their way into it the first time and they’ll probably get most of the game and then from there, they’ll work two full games.” 



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