NEW JERSEY DEVILS

– JARED CLINTON

> IF THERE are two main tenets to the art of goaltending, they are arguably the abilities to read and react. It might not be a coincidence that those skills intersect with one of Mikhail Yegorov’s favorite pastimes. Over the past few years, Yegorov – who was drafted last June by New Jersey in the second round at 49th overall – has been enraptured by chess, part of the game’s boom following the release of the Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit. And he’s turned into quite the player. At last summer’s draft combine, the Russian netminder told reporters he’d reached a 1500 rating, good enough to be a Class C player by U.S. Chess Federation standards. But the 18-year-old doesn’t just like to play chess. He likes to play fast. “I switched…

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