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Tuur Rommens is looking forward to advancing his career at Rangers as the Belgian left-back settles into life at Ibrox. The 22-year-old January signing came off the bench to make his debut in the 5-1 Premiership win over Kilmarnock on Wednesday and is pushing for a place against Queen's Park in the Scottish Cup on Sunday.
Panarin is the Rangers' franchise leader in points per game and twice finished in the top five in Hart Trophy voting in New York.
The Texas Rangers have a limited number of position players on non-roster invites and three of them could have a chance to make the opening day roster.
Rangers head coach Danny Rohl told BBC Scotland: "I'm very happy and pleased for my group. You never know what will happen in a cup game, you have to take it very seriously. Today, we did our job.
Scoring has been an issue for much of the post-1994-championship era, which caused the Henrik Lundqvist-led Rangers to repeatedly fall short in the 2010s, but in Panarin, they found the elite gamebreaker who had eluded them for so many years.
They began preparing to move into life after Panarin on Jan. 16, when general manager Chris Drury released a letter to the fanbase announcing a roster retool was coming and word spread that he also told the 34-year-old forward the Rangers would not be re-signing him.
The Texas Rangers must solve these three positions during spring training before they get to opening day.