It was 12 and a half years in the past, and the Rangers had been wanting so as to add depth on the precise facet of the protection down the stretch of the truncated 2012-13 season.
A younger man named Andrej Sustr was popping out of faculty as a 22-year-old, and the Blueshirts had been all-in. They thought that they had the 6-foot-7 righty.
However they didn’t.
Sustr, a local of Plzen, Czechia, who had performed one 12 months within the NAHL and one 12 months within the USHL earlier than spending two seasons at Nebraska-Omaha, as an alternative signed with the Lightning, who apparently introduced a better alternative for the younger defenseman.
