Time To Bring In A Big Time Coach
by Dave Gokhstein I wrote in my last article that I would like to see Brian Trottier coaching the Rangers next season, but it I’m pretty sure that the Rangers will have a coach in place before the Avs get knocked out the playoffs. There’s talk about Mike Keenan leaving the Panthers and coming back […]
Free Agents, A Coach And The Goalie
by Dave Gokhstein Ranger fan’s have now officially started the countdown to July 1st, waiting to see who the Rangers will throw their money at during this year’s off-season. With this year’s free agent crop loaded with big name talent, Glen Sather’s main target without a doubt should be Bobby Holik. Put simply, Holik is […]
Low Gone
The Rangers today announced they would not bring coach Ron Low back for a third year. Low, who’s contract expired with the Rangers failure to make the post-season for the fifth straight season, leaves the Rangers after two years and a 69-81-9-5 record. New York struggled during Low’s tenure on both defense and specialty teams. […]
Ranger Report Card
Extreme Views – RangerExtreme Here is the NYR report card for the first 59 games this season each player has been given a grade ranging from A-F. Basically grades are given on performance relative to a player fulfilling his given role. With a grade of a C being a passing acceptable grade. Eric Lindros, Center […]
Mid Term Report Card
by Jim Samuels Give Glen Sather seventeen months and this is what you get. After four consecutive playoff misses the Rangers general manager has overhauled not only this floundering franchise, but the entire organization. Sather has found a way to add both talent and depth, two things sorely lacking on Broadway during their four year […]
Week 10 Wrap-up
by Jim Samuels So, where did you really think the New York Rangers would be after thirty-five games ?. If you think along the same lines that are drawn each week in this column, you probably figured the Rangers would be somewhere in the middle of the pack in the eastern conference. Possibly flirting with […]
Week 9 Wrap-up
by Jim Samuels Who would’ve thunk it ? Twenty nine games into this young season and The New York Rangers are not only tops in the Atlantic division, but are leading the Eastern Conference with an eye-popping 37 points. This team, still very much a work in progress, has seemed much more committed to the […]
Kovalev For Nedved, 3 Years Later…
by Jim Samuels It’s been three years – almost to the day – since the big deal that sent Ranger fan favorite Alexei Kovalev to the Pittsburgh Penguins for centerman Petr Nedved. Kovalev, a former first round draft pick taken 15th overall in the 1991 draft was an integral part of the Blueshirts 1994 Stanley […]
Week 8 Wrap-up
by Jim Samuels Coming off a 1-0 whitewash of the Tampa Bay Lightning, the Rangers stood at 17-9-2-1 and sat alone atop the eastern conference. But just six days and three alarming losses later, the Blueshirts have transformed from a team on a roll, that saw them go 11-2-1-1 over their previous 15 matches, to […]
Quarterly Report
by Jim Samuels Just over a month into the season and the Rangers have already reached the twenty game mark in this condensed, Olympic year schedule. The season’s first month has brought several surprises and much good fortune for the Blueshirts, who have gone a surprising 12-7-1 in their first twenty matches. General manager Glen […]