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 […]
Forward Motion
Yesterday’s signing of Tim Kennedy in many ways surprising. Perhaps, more than anything, this was Sather being opportunistic, and taking advantage of a rare young free agent with some promise, at a bargain price. Certainly it’s hard to see how the addition of Kennedy fits into any sort of strategy for the coming season. The Blueshirts now […]
Byers Beware
The first five profiles of our Ranger Countdown this off-season, have focused on players who have a good shot of making the opening night line-up. In our sixth edition, we turn our attention to one of the players on the outside looking in. Dane Byers has played a handful of NHL games, but has yet to […]
The Boogeyman
Three profiles down, and around forty to go before we finish our Ranger Countdown series a few days before the regular season kicks off for New York on October 9th. Yesterday we covered the prospects for new backup goaltender Martin Biron in the coming season. Today we cover another free agent signing – Derek Boogaard a.k.a. The Boogeyman. Player ProfileLast […]
Avery Labeled For The Bench?
Yesterday we began our latest series of articles, profiling the Rangers as they head into the preseason in just over two weeks time. We will continue the series through training camp up until the regular season opener on October 9th. In this second installment we turn our focus to Sean Avery, a player who was not […]
Season Ends Abruptly
With yesterday’s shootout loss to the Flyers, the Rangers’ season came abruptly to an end. Maybe I’d gotten too used to seeing post-season play, but for whatever reason the loss yesterday struck me as surprising, and of course more than a little disappointing. In many ways it was a fitting end to the season, a […]
Gaborik v Carcillo – The Rematch
The Philadelphia Flyers visit the Garden today (3:00pm – MSG) to take on the Rangers. New York are desperately in need of points to remain in the race, sitting three points behind the eight placed Bruins, with Boston having a game in hand. Still, memories of the last meeting between these two teams is likely to be fresh in […]
Home Grown
Rangers have become increasingly home grown under the Salary Cap, with this season looking to be especially so