Stealing My Thunder

by Jess Rubenstein You know some people just have to hog all the attention, they have to steal the spotlight from another and so what if they hog all the glory .   Damn that Glen Sather how dare he try to ruin my debut here at Outside the Garden, who the heck does he think he is?  Oh […]

Possible Milestones This Season

With the season opener set for tonight in Washington, several Rangers look to hit new milestones this season, frontlined by the longest tenured Chris Kreider.  With his inclusion in the line-up tonight, Kreider looks to be just the 40th player to appear in 10 different regular season contests.  He is still some ways back of Rod Gilbert‘s […]

Stats and Facts – Rangers Lose Again In Opener

The Rangers opened up their 91st season – 92nd year – with a 3-2 loss to the Nashville Predators, reigning President’s Trophy winners.  It was the second straight year they have opened their season against a Western Conference team, losing last year to Colorado 4-2 as well.  It was the third straight time they’ve opened the season […]

Deja Blue

For those of you who’ve been following the team long enough to remember the pre-lockout days, you’ll be no doubt familiar with the position the Rangers find themselves today. Even if you’re a relative newbie, you’ll likely know just by hanging around with the rest of Ranger fandom, that this is a position that the […]

Some Things Never Change

by Mark Owens Let’s get one thing out of the way: Chris Drury will be the second-best captain the Rangers have had in the past 30 years. He is more than ready to lead this team, especially with seven new players and legends Jaromir Jagr and Brendan Shanahan out of the picture. The team’s average age is now 26, down from […]

Turnover, Speed, and Leadership Void

by Mark Owens Chris Drury and Scott Gomez, along with Henrik Lundqvist, take over as the team’s leaders. Jagr’s offensive production ‘ hopefully ‘ will be replaced by the speedy, enigmatic, underachieving, high first-round pick Nikolai Zherdev (sounds a little like Alex Kovalev, doesn’t it?). Replacing Shanahan’s 23 goals, theoretically, will be Markus Naslund, whose production the past two seasons has […]

Warming The Stove…

by James DeBerardine I know it’s early in the season, but people are beginning to ponder what moves could or should be made that could improve the overall quality of the team. Of course we don’t what injuries or trades will occur over the course of the season; so disregarding these, here are 5 hypothetical […]

2006-07 OTG Ex-Rangers All-Stars

First off we’d like to thank all those who voted in the 2006-07 Outside the Garden Ex-Rangers All-Stars and congratulations to Gorox who was randomly selected from those who voted and will receive an autographed puck from us. The poll marks the fifth year that we’ve asked you, the readers of OTG to vote for your favorite […]

Sather Knows Best

by Cliff Auld Back on March 3, 2004 who would have ever fathomed that the New York Rangers would be predicted by some to win the 2007 Stanley Cup?. Who would have even believed Glen Sather would still be employed by the New York Rangers roughly 2 ½ years later? See it was on that […]

2003-04 Ex-Ranger All-Stars

For the fourth consecutive year, Outside The Garden has searched around the league for the best and fairest of former Ranger players and properties.  This year things were a little more exciting with the addition of several high profile players to the “Ex-Ranger” ranks when GM Glen Sather purged the roster of a number of […]