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The first run of cuts has been announced! The following 20 players were cut from Rangers training camp today. The 5 starred players (*) were returned to their teams in the Juniors, and the other 15 were assigned to the 'Pack:

Centers: Bartek, Bourque*, Dupont, Horak*, Maccarone, Werek*
Right Wings: Ambuhl, Weise
Left Wings: Didiomete, LaCouture, Soryal
Defensemen: Glass, Henley, Klassen, Kundratek*, Urquhart, Williams, Sauer
Goalies: Stajcer*, Wiikman

No real surprises here, except that I expected a few more to go than did, because of the widely publicized "30" figure. This leaves 34 to 35, depending on how you count Dubinsky. The other 34 are:

Centers: Arnason, Anisimov, Boyle, Crowder, Drury, Grachev, Locke, Prospal
Right Wings: Callahan, Gaborik, Kotalik, Lisin
Left Wings: Avery, Brashear, Byers, Higgins, Owens, Parenteau, Rissmiller, Voros
Defensemen: Del Zotto, Gilroy, Girardi, Heikkinen, Potter, Redden, Rozsival, Sanguinetti, Semenov, Staal
Goalies: Johnson, Lundqvist, Valiquette, Zaba

Updated roster is found here. Dubi is included, but tagged with a special double-asterisk meaning "Unsigned restricted free agent." Yeah, haven't learned anything there. Centers Arnason and Locke and Left Wings Byers, Owens, and Rissmiller are also marked separately because, despite being part of the Rangers' considerations for roster, they are going to be playing with Hartford during the remainder of the preseason. This doesn't really matter in terms of roster, it's just some weird technical thing about waivers. So, that leaves 29 people actually playing at Rangers camp, 5 more being considered but playing with the 'Pack, and 1 more being considered but sitting on his ass at home.

The preseason will continue tomorrow night in Detroit and then Saturday afternoon in Boston. As for future cuts, I don't know when the next major round will happen (of the 35, we need to cut another dozen by opening night), but Torts did say we'd be down to two goalies after this weekend, so it seems like another round of cuts will happen then. It's easy to guess which two goalies are getting cut.

Other clues as to the future? Between Steve Zipay and Andrew Gross, we think Gaborik will play Saturday but not tomorrow, and Byers and Locke will play tomorrow. On defense, we think Del Zotto, Gilroy, and Heikkinen will each play in at least one of these two games, and Sanguinetti will play in both.

Also according to Gross, "Tortorella, while addressing the media, also said he was happy with the way his young defensemen were playing but had not been happy with his veterans' performance." So, there that is.