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 […]
Buy High, Sell Low
Jesse Spector of the New York Daily News reports today that the Rangers will seek to buy out captain Chris Drury from the remaining year of his five year contract. The move will save around $3.3M in cap space this season, though it will also add an additional $1.7M or so to the 2012-13 cap figure. For […]
Game On Tonight!
Game one of the Eastern Conference Quarter Finals kicks off the tonight – 7:30pm Versus/MSG – with the Rangers happy to be back in the post season. They’ll also perhaps be looking for redemption for a 3-4 come from ahead series loss in 2009, which saw the Rangers fail to win any of the last […]
Inexperienced Rangers Head Into Playoffs
The Rangers head into their Wednesday night series opener with the Washington Capitals with a big hill to climb. Of the 20 man roster that played in the final game of the season, only thirteen have played in the post season before. Of those thirteen players, only four have played more than forty post season […]
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 […]
Opening Night
The Rangers officially kick off their 85th season tonight in Buffalo, when they square off against the Sabres. Buffalo won last night, defeating the Ottawa Senators 2-1 on the back of two goals by Derek Roy. This will be just the second time in the franchise’s history that the Rangers have opened the season against […]
Banking On The Fed
The NHL season got under way yesterday in Finland, followed up by three games back here in North America. The Rangers too will be in action soon, visiting Buffalo in their season opener tomorrow. As we reach the penultimate edition of Rangers Countdown, we take a look at a player who wasn’t on the team […]
Room For Optimism – Part III
For those who’ve been following, I’ve been responding to a post on the OTG message boards that asked why we should be optimistic. In Part I of my response, I focused on what other teams have done in the Eastern Conference, and how many of those teams have questions two. In Part II I turned my attention back to the Rangers […]
Room For Optimism – Part II
Earlier today I put together reasons why I felt you could be optimistic about the upcoming Rangers season. In Part I, I applied a critical viewpoint to each of the teams in the Eastern Conference and highlighted questions that could be raised about almost every team. That’s not to say all those questions will remain unanswered, […]
Camp Fire Stories
Traditionally Rangers training camp has been more about getting veterans into shape, than any real competition for spots. Not so in 2010, when the Rangers entered the preseason preparations with an abundance of players looking to rebound, along with several good rookies looking to make their mark. Certainly not all questions have been resolved, but […]