Defenseman Joey Keane has been reassigned to the Barrie Colts of the OHL today, cutting the roster to 44 with fourteen days remaining until opening night.  The 19 year old defenseman saw his first preseason action with the organization last night, ending up with a -2 plus/minus and 2 shots on goal in 11:26 of ice time  more

New York dropped their home opening preseason game 6-4 to the Flyers last night, and once again their defense looked like it needed work.  The Flyers scored five goals on Henrik Lundqvist before he was pulled at the 26:37 mark  more

Per Larry Brooks of the New York Post, Cristoval Nieves (aka "Boo") has been diagnosed with a concussion following last night's hit from Eric Gryba of the New Jersey Devils.  The injury almost certainly eliminates Nieves from contention for a roster spot on Opening Night, something that was a relatively longshot anyway  more

The Rangers are projected to go into their second pre-season game with a significanlty different roster from last night's opening preseason victory against the Devils.  Tony DeAngelo and Pavel Buchnevich get their second games, while eighteen players will see their first action of the preseason  more

With camp just in it's fourth day, the Rangers coaching staff have made their first cuts, trimming the roster from 52 to 45.  With five preseason games remaining, the Rangers will need to cut at least 21 more players before the opening day rosters are set  more

Preseason counts for nothing in terms of season success, but it is an important time for the prospects and fringe players to make an impression on the coaches, particularly when it's the first presseason for the new Rangers head coach David Quinn  more

The second summer of GM Gorton having full control of draft picks and the Rangers new vision has been a few months of shake-up and reorganization. The proof of a new vision for the future and trusting the kids with the future was the hiring of Dan Quinn as head coach from the Boston University. Last offseason GM Gorton did not qualify a number of ex-draft picks that were still RFA's which lead them to leave the organization. With Chris Drury now running the AHL Wolfpack, all players are being developed in the "new Rangers vision" and all RFA's were qualified except for Adam Tambellini. All focus was on the NHL Draft and alot of the NHL writers and bloggers were expecting the Rangers brass to slide back into it's "safety mode" and bring in a few veterans for some of the picks the Rangers had collected with the major NHL Trade deadline moves  more

The Rangers made a huge change in just filling holes insted of a total tear down and rebuild at the trade deadline by trading Ryan McDonagh, J.T. Miller, Rick Nash, Michael Grabner, Nick Holden. and even AHLer Ryan Graves who never got  a chance on Broadway. In has come Ryan Spooner, Vlad Namestmikov, Rob O'Gara who have been inserted in the lineup right away  and along with many future pieces like Boston Bruins #1 and #3 pick in 2018 and their #7 pick in 2019 alomg with Ryan Lindgren (who has since singed his ELC with the Rangers and is in Hartford on an ATO and expects to compete for an NHL spot next summer);  Devils 2nd rounder and prospect Igor Rykov; Tampa's #1 in 2018 and #1 in 2019 (that drops to a #2 if Tampa doesn't win the Cup in 2018 or 2019.. LET'S GO TAMPA), along with Brett Howden and Libor HAjek; and Colorado prospect Chris Bigras. Also this past summer, the rebuild became easy to see as the Rangers traded away 1st line center Derek Stepan and goalie Antii Raanta for this past years #7 overall pick that turned out to be Lias Andersson along with dman Anthony DeAngelo who started in Hartford came up and played very offensively until an injury sidelined him  more

So the Rangers now have three first round picks this year, and a possible first round pick.  As it stands right now, the best pick will be their own this year, projecting to be a top 10 pick.  As of February 27th, they have the 7th worst record in the league, though some of the teams they are "chasing" have played fewer than the 63 games already completed by New York  more