WHY NEW YORK RANGERS GOALIE ALEXANDAR GEORGIEV HAS MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. ON HIS MASK. When the NHL season was paused in March, New York Rangers goalie Alexandar Georgiev went home to Russia. “I follow the world news daily and obviously the U.S. a lot,” Georgiev said. “And a big theme all over the world was what was going on in the U.S. and the racial issues that were coming up.”