MONTREAL — Matthew Robertson was drafted by the Rangers well over six years ago, but the big-bodied defenseman is only just getting his first legitimate chance to prove he can be a full-time NHL player.

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Year after year, the organization’s 49th-overall pick in 2019 came through training camp without coming close to cracking the Blueshirts roster.

And season after season, whenever the team needed to make a call to AHL Hartford amid an injury on defense, Robertson never got a single look.

It took 2,124 days in the Rangers system before he made his NHL debut last season, which really only came about beca

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