Bolts For The Cup!
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 […]
Opening Night
Overall the Rangers are 38-38-13-1 in opening night games dating back to their NHL debut back in 1926-27. They currently sit on a three game winning streak, having beaten the Islanders 5-3 last season, Chicago 3-2 the previous year, and the Blues by a similar 3-2 margin back in 2014-15. The three game streak is the third longest in franchise history […]
It’s Been Twenty Years
The New York Rangers are off to a torrid start to the 2016-17 NHL season, with 65 goals through the first sixteen games of the year. That puts them on pace for 333 goals, which would be the most goals in the past twenty years for any NHL team, let alone the Blueshirts. You have […]
A New Member Of The 400 club
In the ninety one year history of the New York Rangers a total of one thousand and twenty nine players have worn the Broadway Blueshirt. Of those, only sixty seven have appeared in four hundred or more regular season games as a Ranger. Tonight that group will grow by one more, when Ryan McDonagh appears in his […]
Blueshirts Advance In “Record” Time
It’s been a while since the Rangers took fewer than five games to advance. In fact the last six series they’re won have been: 7, 7, 7, 7, 7 and 6 last year in the Eastern Conference Finals. You have to go back to 2008 when they beat the Devils 4-1 in Round one to […]
Blueshirts Head Into Break On High
Back on December 6th, the New York Rangers gave up a 2-0 lead on the road to lose to the Detroit Red Wings 3-2. The loss left the team with an 11-10-4 record, placing them two points behind the Capitals for fourth in the Metropolitan, and five points behind the Maple Leafs and Bruins for […]
A Goal In Mind
Right Winger Rick Nash is off to a fast start, with six goals and a game deciding goal in the shootout in his first five games. Could he finally be delivering the type of offense that the Rangers expected when they acquired him back in the summer of 2013? Going back to last year, Nash played just […]
Dollars And Sense
There’s a lot of buy-outs going on right now, so I figured I’d take a look at how bad it’s been over the last several seasons. Using CapGeek.com, I was able to take a look back to 2006 when they began keeping data – NOTE: this does not include the previous amnesty buy-outs from 2005, such […]
14,645
The last time the Rangers and Bruins met in the playoffs was April 10th, 1973, or to put it another way, it will have been 14,645 days. Richard Nixon was in the whitehouse, and the Sears Tower wouldn’t be completed within the month. Not a single current Ranger was born when the two teams last […]
An Historic Performance
Last night the Rangers did something the franchise had never done since coming into the league in 1926 – win on the road in Game 7. Four previous attempts had ended in losses, including a triple OT and double OT loss in the early years to Boston (1939) and Detroit (1950) respectively, as well as […]