Draft Recap: Focus On Size With A Couple Of Skill Guys
The focus in Chris Drury‘s first draft as General Manager, was clearly on size and physicality. With nine picks going into the draft, the team would ultimately end up with eight new prospects, making just the one trade – sending the third round #80 pick along with the sixth round #168 to Washington for the third […]
Buchnevich Heading Out?
I believe at this point that Pavel Buchnevich will be traded before July 28th, I’m not sure to whom, or for what, but after yesterday’s media conference with General Manager Chris Drury, I think it’ll happen. I’ll be disappointed, I like what he’s evolved into as a player, but I don’t run the Rangers. The primary reason of […]
Clues On What’s To Come
Pretty much everyone has said the Rangers need more grind and grit, and that of course came to a head late in the season following a sweep by the Islanders and of course that game against the Capitals. How that would be addressed appears to be becoming a littler clearer. The move Saturday were the […]
Rangers Hire Gord Murphy and Mike Kelly
Two of the Rangers three assistant coaching roles have been filled today, with the hiring of Gord Murphy and Mike Kelly. Both have been assistant coaches under the new Rangers’ head coach, with Murphy working with Gallant through his first head coaching term in Columbus, and Kelly being behind the bench with Gallant in Florida […]
Rangers Fire David Quinn
It was hard to see how David Quinn would survive the firings of John Davidson and Jeff Gorton in the final week of the season, and today Chris Drury made it official, removing all but Benoit Allaire from their coaching positions. Quinn had joined the Rangers straight from Boston University, taking over a team that had been gutted following […]
Lindgren Extended For Three Years
In his first move since becoming the Rangers General Manager, Chris Drury got his first contract out of the way by signing Ryan Lindgren to a three year contract extension. The 23 year old defender has emerged as a top-pair defenseman for the Rangers, having formed a bond with his former US juniior team mate, Adam Fox. Acquired at the […]
Rangers Fire Davidson and Gorton
Just when it seemed the Rangers had gone from a transactional organization to a strategic one, we were hit the news this afternoon that team owner Jim Dolan has fired president John Davidson and General Manager Jeff Gorton. The move comes less than 24 hours after the team issued a statement condemning the NHL and singling out […]
Was Time To Go
Former Rangers captain Chris Drury announced his retirement yesterday after twelve seasons in the NHL, quietly bringing a disappointing close to an injury plagued season that ended in the buy-out of the final year of the five-year contract he signed with the Rangers back in 2007. As a player in the league and for his country, there […]
Brad Intentions
It’s July 1st, time once again for Glen Sather to go shopping on the open market. It’s a time of nervous excitement for we Ranger fans, though not always of the positive variety. Wade Redden, Chris Drury, Scott Gomez, Donald Brashear, Ales Kotalik, and even Michal Rozsival, who was technical a UFA when they resigned him to $5M a year after they […]
Drury To Stay
The Rangers will not be buying out the last year of Chris Drury‘s contract after all. Today was the last day in which the Rangers could initiate the process by placing him on unconditional waivers, and they needed to do it by 12:00pm Eastern. According to @stevezipay, @NYDNRangers and AGrossRecord that did not happen. The move means the Rangers will be […]