The Rangers are wasting no time getting their rookie group on the ice.
With opening night still under a month away, New York has revealed its full Rookie Camp roster ahead of a pair of exhibition scrimmages against the Philadelphia Flyers this weekend. The teams will meet Sept. 12 at 7:00 p.m. and Sept. 13 at 5:00 p.m. in Allentown, Penn., with both games likely to be streamed at PhiladelphiaFlyers.com.
A lot of the roster looks familiar at this point, and that’s by design. All of the Rangers’ 2026 draft picks are included except Ben Macbeath, Charlie Morrison, and Ivan Patrikhayev. Macbeath and Morrison are currently with their NCAA programs, while Patrikhayev is with his KHL team in Russia.
The headliners are the prospects fans have been circling for a while: Cole Beaudoin, Liam Greentree, Brody Lamb, Alberts Smits, Nathan Aspinall, and Tomas Chrenko. Beaudoin, Greentree, and Smits are all new to the organization and could be in the conversation for an opening night roster spot once preseason gets rolling.
Lamb, a Rangers draft pick who has already been in the system for some time, is in that same mix. Aspinall is coming off a huge season in the OHL, and Chrenko has the kind of upside that could make him one of the sneaky value picks from this year’s draft.
There are also a few names here that stand out because they’ve already spent time around bigger pro environments. Adam Sykora brings three full AHL seasons and 11 games with the Rangers last season, so he’s clearly one of the more established voices in the room. Drew Fortescue finished last season with the Rangers but still hasn’t logged any AHL time.
Bryce McConnell-Barker and Dylan Roobroeck are also among the more seasoned players on the roster, with both carrying two full AHL seasons on their resumes.
Zakary Karpa is another notable inclusion. The 2022 Rangers draft pick never signed his entry-level deal, but he’s on an AHL contract with the Hartford Wolf Pack after posting four points in 24 games last season.
The two unsigned invites are Dayne Beuker and Michael Suda. Beuker was at Rangers development camp this summer and remains a name worth watching.
He was one of the top players left unselected in the 2026 draft class, ranked 76th among North American skaters by NHL Central Scouting. A Team USA product, he produced 43 points in 62 games in the Development Program and added two goals and three assists for five points at the U18 World Juniors.
At 5-10 and 170 pounds, he doesn’t bring much in the way of size, but his calling cards are clear: hockey sense, work ethic, motor, and the kind of touch that can help a player carve out a bottom-six role.
Suda, meanwhile, is a 24-year-old left-shot defenseman from Cheektowoga, N.Y., near Buffalo. He spent four years at Cornell and has played in the ECHL since then.
Last season with the Worcester Railers, he totaled 39 points in 65 games. An undrafted college hockey graduate, he could be aiming for an AHL contract or simply another chance to keep climbing.
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