Preseason Schedule Announced
The Rangers today announced their preseason schedule, with six road games to kick off their 2013-14 Stanley Cup campaign. With MSG still undergoing rennovations, the Blueshirts will spend their first week with two games against the division rival Devils and Flyers, before heading west to play their remaining four games against the Oilers, Flames, Canucks […]
Training Camp To Open September 11th
The Rangers have announced that training camp will open September 11th this season, six days after the prospects begin their season in the Traverse City Prospects Tournament. It is yet to be determined how many players the Rangers will invite to camp, but with a new coach, there may be interest in taking a […]
Rangers Renew Agreement With Road Warriors
The Rangers and Greenville Road Warriors of the ECHL, will continue their affiliation agreement for a fourth straight year per the Road Warriors official site. The two teams signed an agreement following the promotion of the Charlotte Checkers to the AHL, and the Rangers have had eleven players so far dress for the Road Warriors, with […]
Zuccarello Arbitration Hearing Set For July 31st
The Rangers and Restricted Free Agent will have 15 more days to try and work out a new contract, or it will be put in the hands of an arbiter. The NHLPA announced today the schedule for hearings, and Mats Zuccarello is scheduled for July 31st. Zuccarello has played parts of three seasons with the Rangers, and joined them […]
Former Rangers Shero and Shanahan Head To Hall
Neither Fred Shero nor Brendan Shanahan will be known primarily for their Ranger careers, but they did each have stints with the Blueshirts. For Fred Shero, he’ll be known primarily for the two Cup winning years he had in Philadelphia, but following his tenure in Philadelphia, he coached the Rangers for just over two seasons from the 1978-79 through to […]
Asham and Powe Still Rangers
Both Arron Asham and Darroll Powe were placed on waivers yesterday, in the hope that a team might claim them and review their respective salaries from the Cap calculation. At 12pm Eastern today, they remained unclaimed and as such remain on the Summer roster. Each team is however allowed to exceed by 10 percent the $64.3M cap figure over […]
Ryane Clowe Goes To Rival Devils
It seems the Rangers aren’t the only ones who were willing to overpay for injured wing Ryane Clowe. The Devils announced today that they have signed the former Rangers to a five year – $24.25M deal pretty right after the 12pm deadline passed. Clowe will get to see his former team plenty of times, providing he […]
Henrik Lundqvist Second Team All Star
Henrik Lundqvist has been selected in the NHL Second All-Star Team, backing up his First All-Star Team selection from last year. The defending Vezina Trophy winner earlier lost his title to Sergei Bobrovsky of the Columbus Blue Jackets, and finished second behind the same netminder in the All-Star voting. Lundqvist recovered from a slow start, to lead […]
Arniel and Samuelsson Official; Another On The Way?
The Rangers finally made it official that Ulf Samuelsson has joined the Rangers as an Assistant to Head Coach Alain Vigneault, and also confirmed the hiring of former Blue Jackets Head Coach as a second Assistant. GM Glen Sather also indicated that the Rangers may not be done yet, following on from comments earlier by Vigneault that he’d […]
Scott Arniel Pegged To Be Assistant Coach
Just a couple of days after Ulf Samuelsson was pegged as the first assistant coach – he was at the prospect camp today, but we’re still awaiting for an official announcement – Alain Vigneault appears to have added a second assistant, former Blue Jackets Head Coach Scott Arniel. Arniel was head coach of the Columbus Blue Jackets […]