It's only a matter of time before the future arrives in the Big Apple.

Head coach Alain Vigneault said there's a "very good chance" Lias Andersson and Filip Chytil - arguably the team's two best prospects - will join the Rangers "real soon," with Andersson possibly playing Thursday against the Philadelphia Flyers.

Andersson, the seventh overall pick in the 2017 draft, has 28 points in 45 games this season split between Frolunda of the Swedish Hockey League, and the AHL's Hartford Wolf Pack. He picked up six goals and an assist in seven games while captaining Sweden at the World Juniors, and infamously threw his silver medal in the stands.

Chytil, also a first-round pick last year (21st overall), has 31 points in 44 games with the Wolf Pack. He dressed for two games with the Rangers in October, so he can play up to seven games before burning a year off his entry-level contract. Andersson, meanwhile, could play up to nine games.

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