He first stepped onto the ice wearing Rangers regalia at the club’s 2019 development camp conducted at Chelsea Piers in Stamford while the Tarrytown training facility was undergoing a renovation.
Matt Robertson was strutting his stuff after having been a second-round draft choice, selected 49th overall after the club had taken Kaapo Kakko second overall. He was on the ice with, among others, Kakko; incoming defensemen Adam Fox and K’Andre Miller; and future goaltender Igor Shesterkin.
Five years later, the 6-foot-4, 209-pound defenseman is back again. Five years later, now 23, Robertson is still looking to make his NHL debut. It is extremely unusual for a North American player going through the CHL route to take five years to make his big-league debut and make the team— and it would be unprecedented within the Rangers organization— but that will be merely a footnote if Robertson sticks.
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