From roommates to Rangers: Adam Sýkora, Jaroslav Chmelař savor NHL dream together

NEW YORK — Less than a week after the Rangers selected him in the second round of the 2022 NHL Draft, Adam Sýkora stood 100 stories above downtown Manhattan, terrified. He was with fellow Rangers development camp participants at the Edge, a 1,000-foot-tall overlook in the Hudson Yards neighborhood. Every instinct in his body told him not to join the Rangers’ prospects for a picture on the skydeck.“He was s—-ing his pants,” says Jaroslav Chmelař, drafted in the fifth round the year before.Advertisement