Banged Up Rangers Take On Caps
The Rangers are in D.C. tonight to play the fifth placed Washington Capitals. Neither team has been terribly consistent this season, though both are coming off wins. The Blueshirts for their part took care of the Atlanta Thrashers 3-2 in a shootout Saturday night, battling back from a late 2-1 deficit with both Brandon Prust and Dan Girardi injured […]
Season Projections
The NHL season gets under way today, and so we unveil the official 2010-11 OTG predictions for the coming season. For this year, we asked six of our fellow bloggers to join with us to project where each team will finish in the two conferences. Not surprisingly we all picked the Rangers to make the […]
Rangers Trim Roster
Seemingly the only move remaining for the Rangers before Wednesday’s 3pm deadline to file final rosters, will be to give Ruslan Fedotenko a contract. That’s because today they re-assigned rookie defensemen Pavel Valentenko and Ryan McDonagh to Hartford, trimming their roster to 25 players. They have to get down to 23, but with Chris Drury and Vinny Prospal likely heading to IR, that […]
More Cuts As Rangers Trim 11
The Rangers trimmed their roster by a further eleven players today, bringing the number remaining in camp to just 27, including injured forwards Chris Drury and Vinny Prospal. The cuts marked the end of contract bids for defensemen Alexei Semenov, Garnet Exelby and try-out Brandon Manning. At forward, the biggest surprise was perhaps Mats Zuccarello Aasen going to down […]
Wade Ridding
Wade Redden will be placed on waivers in a little under an hour, practically ending one of the worst contracts in NHL history. The 33 year old and his massive $6.5M annual cap hit and four remaining years, is not expected to be claimed, and he will be assigned to the Hartford Wolf Pack. The widely […]
First Cuts Are The Deepest
The Rangers announced today that they have reassigned twenty five players to the minor leagues and juniors. Fifteen players were sent down to the Hartford Wolf Pack, which started it’s last official camp before converting to the Connecticut Whale later in the year, and another ten to Canadian Juniors. The moves mean there are 38 […]
The Battle For Spots
Captain Chris Drury went and saw a hand specialist yesterday and will likely miss 3-4 weeks as originally reported – four weeks at most according to a quote from this morning’s NY Post. The good news is that he won’t require surgery, nor will he need a cast – unless he manages to damage it further over the […]
Camp Roster Published and Staal Deal ‘Close’
The Rangers have added another invite to the training camp roster – officially released today. Jordan Parise, older brother of the Devils’ Zach Parie, and son of one time Islander J.P. Parise, will go into camp to try and win an AHL contract. Parise completes a six man goalie roster that includes the projected NHL starting pair […]
Invitations Are Out
With the prospects out in Traverse City playing their first game of the tournament – a 5-4 win over the Columbus Blue Jackets – the Rangers veterans returned to the ice for their informal skates. Alexander Frolov skated with the team for the first time since signing a one year, $3M contract back on July 27th, and faced off […]
Prospects In Action Saturday
Rangers training camp for the prospects has started with the beginning of the annual Traverse City Prospects Tournament scheduled to kick off tomorrow. The Rangers will be on the ice for a 9:30am practice, before facing off against the Columbus Blue Jackets at 3:30pm in their first game. The Rangers will play two more round robin games […]