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Fritsche waived; Renney wants defenseman

With forward Dan Fritsche on the way out, is a seventh defenseman on the Rangers' radar?

"It would be nice," coach Tom Renney said in discussing yesterday's waiving of Fritsche, the 23-year-old forward who arrived with Nikolai Zherdev from Columbus in the July trade for Fedor Tyutin and Christian Backman and appeared in just 16 games. "In a perfect world, yeah."

The Rangers have carried...

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