Cole Beaudoin back with Rangers two days after demotion and theres a reason why

Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Mollie Walker about the inside buzz on the Rangers.Cole Beaudoin technically was slated to skate in his third professional hockey game in three days against the Canucks on Sunday night at Madison Square Garden. Amid Igor Shesterkin’s season-ending injury, the Rangers sent Beaudoin to Hartford and recalled Juuso Parssinen on Saturday in order to maximize their long-term injured reserve pool.

Assigning Parssinen to the Rangers roster over Beaudoin added $308,000 to their cap and brought the organization closer to its optimal LTIR capture. The new paper transactions rule in the collective bargaining agreement requires players sent down to appear in one game before they are eligible for a recall. Beaudoin only took one shift for Hartford on Saturday night, but evidently it was part of the game plan. “He played very little,” head coach Mike Sullivan said of Beaudoin, who only took one shift against the Wilkes-Barre Scranton Penguins.“He’s a young guy.

He has tons of energy.He didn’t play very much [Saturday] night, so that was by design.

Cole’s a good player.He’s played very well for Hartford to this point.

He’s deserving of the opportunity he has with us.We like his potential and where it could go. “He’s a young guy; he’s going to make mistakes along the way, but we’ll help him through that process.

Overall, we really like his game.” The 20-year-old Beaudoin appeared unfazed by his fluctuation between the AHL and NHL. Describing the back-and-forth as “crazy,” Beaudoin said he was happy to be back with the varsity group and that he is trying to enjoy the process of it all.He was expected to continue skating in the middle of the Rangers’ fourth line between Jaroslav Chmelar and Oliver Bjorkstrand. In his second NHL game Friday in Washington, the Ottawa native had a “Welcome to the NHL” moment. Beaudoin committed the turnover a...