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Friday - September 20th
Darren Dreger of TSN reports that the Rangers and Derek Stepan remain about $500K apart on a two year bridge deal.
According to Dreger, Stepan could miss the season opener, as the Rangers look ready to offer $3M a year, against $3.5M that the player is reportedly looking for.
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| Brian Leetch has chosen not to return to his NHL position, looking for work ? |
Posted by Michael M. Ramos ≡ 10:00:38 AM - August 1, 2014
Hall of Famer and New York Rangers icon Brian Leetch has decided not to return to his position in the NHL next season. This decision makes one wonder if it is to fill the newly opened coaching position as the Rangers assistant coach that is "the eye is the sky"that opened up when Dan Lacroix moved on to become an assistant coach with the Montreal Canadiens. It was rumored before Alain Vigneault was hired that Brian Leetch would join the staff of Mark Messier if he was hired to lead the Rangers from behind the bench that never came to fruition. Brian Leetch has started to come around the NHL the last few years as a guest commentator with the New York Rangers Pre/ Post game shows that lead him to taking a job under Brendan Shanahan in the NHL league offices last season. As Shanahan has moved on to work for the Toronto Maple Leafs, could it be that Brian Leetch is on his way to New York again? It makes total sense that he would take the open position that has opened by the departure of Lacroix. He spent last year looking at all the games in the Toronto offices and knows alot of the players. We all know that Brian Leetch knows the game of hockey with his H.O.F. status and being the first American to win the Conn Smythe as the 1994 Stanley Cup Playoffs MVP. He lead the U.S.A. team to the World Cup Championship. He would be the perfect person at the right time to help bring along to an elite status for Ryan McDonagh. Granted the Rangers already have Ulf Samuelsson as an assistant coach in charge of the defense, but he most likely will become a head coach in the near future and if that was to happen, it would be an easy move to bring Leetch down from the press box to behind the bench. This would seem like a no-brainer. Read more >>
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Revamped Rangers Ready To Go?
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Posted by Michael M. Ramos ≡ 9:17:25 AM - July 28, 2014
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General Manager Glen Sather and Assistant G.M. Jeff Gorton have had a busy signing season this past season along with a few trades starting from March to this present time and seem to be working on at least one trade to come before the season begins. It all started with the trade of ex-Ranger captain Ryan Callahan and two #1 picks plus a #7 rounder for Martin St. Louis and a #2 round pick. The Rangers added players for picks such as Dan Carcillo and Rafeal Diaz for depth which was well needed on a Rangers playoff run to the Stanley Cup Final. The signings extending the current group of players or bringing in replacements for the players that moved on the "greener" pastures such as Anton Stralman, Brian Boyle, Benoit Pouliot, and the buyout of Brad Richards have kept Sather and Gorton busy by signing 23 players. All of the players signed are not for top line positions but also for the depth in case of injuries and for the AHL Hartford Wolfpack more
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Does a Staal Come or Does A Staal Go?
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Posted by Michael M. Ramos ≡ 2:26:16 PM - July 8, 2014
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The Rangers can clearly fill out their roster with current Ranger prospects and be under the $69 million cap that includes signing the 3 free agents awaiting arbitration, if long term contracts aren't signed by their arbitration date. The Rangers have to make a decision on what to do with Marc Staal who could enter free agency after the 2014-2015 season. The talk everywhere is that all of the Staal brothers want to play together and is headed to Carolina next summer, so the Rangers have to make a move soon one way or another. There are rumors that Eric Staal is on the market, so do the Rangers make the move to bring him to Broadway? If Eric comes to New York, that still leaves Jordan Staal in Carolina, who went there to be with his brother Eric and signed for a $6 million caphit for like 10 years. So would it have to become a blockbuster deal to bring both of the Staal brothers to New York and then sign Marc to an extension in the neighborhood of Dan Girardi's $5.5 caphit per season? Do the Rangers abandon the Staal moves and move their signed Staal and send him out west in a trade for Joe Thorton who is BFF with Rick Nash and try to get Nash back to his top form? WWSD(What Will Sather Do)?
The Rangers now have Rick Nash, Martin St. Louis, Derek Stepan, Tanner Glass, Dominic Moore, and newly signed to a 1 way contract Chris Mueller under contract and expected to be on the opening night roster. Restricted Free Agents Derick Brasard, Chris Kreider, John Moore, and Mats Zuccarello are expected to sign long term contracts totalling somewhere around $11-12 million a year together. Rookies J.T. Miller and Jesper Fast have the inside track on the open spots up front leaving somewhere around $2.3 left for 1 or maybe 2 more spots depending on whether the Rangers carry an extra up front to start the season. From inside the organization, it would seem that Ryan Haggerty(who signed with the Rangers and stayed with the NHL club for the rest of last year and will work out again this summer with Martin St. Louis and Brad Richards) and Oscar Lindberg have a year under their belt learning the Rangers organization while Anthony Duclair(if not sent back to Jr's), Danny Kristo, and Ryan Bourque ar more of an long shot to stick at the NHL level more
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Where will Rangers spend???
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Posted by Michael M. Ramos ≡ 10:06:14 AM - July 1, 2014
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The Rangers have said that Rangers prospect and draft pick Brady Skjei is ready to turn pro but it seems the young player would rather play one more season at the University of Minnesota, It sounds very similar to what Ryan McDonagh said while he was attending Wisconsin University but after attending the Rangers prospect camp and Traverse City Tournament, the Rangers were able to persuade McDonagh to sign and turn pro with a contract of roughly $1.3 mil per for 3 years that showed as a smaller cap hit due to signing and performance bonus' more
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Changes Are Happening
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Posted by Michael M. Ramos ≡ 3:30:38 PM - June 27, 2014
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The New York Rangers have traded Derek Dorsett to the Vancouver Canucks for Anaheim Ducks 3rd round pick (# 85 overall) that they had acquired earler in the day in the Ryan Kesler trade. With the buyout of Brad Richards, the Rangers have cleared up roughly $8.34 caphit for next season. This helps with the NHL announcing that the Cap ceiling will be $69 million and NOT the projected $71 million which puts alot of teams at the ceiling or over and will force moves that will change many clubs this summer more
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Cally Staying In Tampa
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Posted by Michael M. Ramos ≡ 6:24:32 AM - June 25, 2014
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Reports and tweets coming out of Tampa and Callahan's agents people are saying Callahan has agreed to stay in Tampa for the next 5 years(possibly a 6th) for an average of over $5.5 million per year. That is alot less than what was being reported he was asking for when he was with the Rangers. The rumors while in New York was he was looking for around $7 million per average which many thought was way overblown. So either the reports out of the New York were made up so that the Rangers fans wouldn't go nuts when the Captain was traded for a "Go for it now" attempt at the Cup by getting Martin St. Louis, or Ryan Callahan had a HUGE change of mind and came down in his demands by over $1.3 million per year which isn't very likely. Congrats to Ryan Callahan on a well deserved contract and THANK YOU for all you did for the New York Rangers organization!!!
As a result of Callahan signing in Tampa, the Rangers will receive Tampa's 2nd round pick in 2015 while the Rangers send their 7th pick in 2015 in return more
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0:00pm - Home
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Friday Sep 26th
0:00pm - Road
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Complete Schedule
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Question Of The Day
June 21st, 2013
How many of the Rangers 34 Head Coaches have been born in Quebec?
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Bruins |
82 |
54 |
19 |
9 |
117 |
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Penguins |
82 |
51 |
24 |
7 |
109 |
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Lightning |
82 |
46 |
27 |
9 |
101 |
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Canadiens |
82 |
46 |
28 |
8 |
100 |
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Rangers |
82 |
45 |
31 |
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96 |
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Flyers |
82 |
42 |
30 |
10 |
94 |
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Blue Jackets |
82 |
43 |
32 |
7 |
93 |
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Red Wings |
82 |
39 |
28 |
15 |
93 |
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Capitals |
82 |
38 |
30 |
14 |
90 |
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Senators |
82 |
37 |
31 |
14 |
88 |
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Devils |
82 |
35 |
29 |
18 |
88 |
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Maple Leafs |
82 |
38 |
36 |
8 |
84 |
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Hurricanes |
82 |
36 |
35 |
11 |
83 |
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Islanders |
82 |
34 |
37 |
11 |
79 |
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Panthers |
82 |
29 |
45 |
8 |
66 |
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Sabres |
82 |
21 |
51 |
10 |
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DAN FRITSCHE
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