The New York Rangers season might be over, but the team will
have a presence at the upcoming World Championships. Kevin Allen of USA Today tweeted
that Derek Stepan will be on the Team USA squad along with prospect Chris
Kreider. The pair has played together
before, most notably, at the 2010 U-20 World Junior Championships in which they
played on the same line and helped win the gold medal. The two have shown excellent chemistry together in the past and it would be an easy coaching move to put them on a line with one another during the tournament.
Along with Stepan, Marian Gaborik will play for Slovakia in
the tournament, while Artem Anisimov, Vinny Prospal and Henrik Lundqvist all
will be sitting out the festivities.
