Drury’s Dangerous Driving

Chris Drury is the architect of both the successes and failures of the Rangers

The circumstances for Chris Drury’s ascension to General Manager and President were quick and somewhat unexpected. It started with THAT game against the Capitals on May 3rd, 2001 which saw Tom Wilson embarrass the Rangers on their home ice. Two days later owner Jim Dolan had fired both President John Davidson and General Manager Jeff […]

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 […]

Ruff Officially Joins Devils

The Devils made the official announcement today that Lindy Ruff will be their next head coach.  Ruff had served the past three seasons as an assistant coach to David Quinn following a stint as Head Coach with the Dallas Stars.  Originally brought in under Alain Vigneault, Ruff remained with the team through the hiring of David Quinn, […]

Limited Options Bring Interesting Response

After the trade of Vladislav Namestnikov to the Senators, the Rangers have just 21 players on their roster, further constraining what were already limited options for head coach David Quinn.  In all, the Rangers have used only 21 players through the first three games, including the aforementioned Namestnikov. The only player on the roster who hasn’t played, […]

And Here We Go

Okay, so how many of you thought Brendan Smith would be on the roster for opening night, let along starting as a fourth line wing?  Now be honest, I’m not sure even Brendan himself envisioned that this was likely to happen, though it certainly appears that he wasn’t ready to just give up. Or for that matter, […]

Extras Stay For Saturday

Yesteday the team trimmed the camp roster to 32 players, with at least nine more players destined to be heading to the minors over the coming days.  Yet a handful of players remain with the big team practicing ahead of Saturday’s preseason finale in Bridgeport, where a number of the ones who miss the roster […]

Russian Interference

Okay, bear with me on this one, but what if the Rangers should decide to pair Artemi Panarin with Vladimir Namestnikov and Pavel Buchnevich to form one of the top two lines.  Yes, I’m really suggesting that Rangers’ take their premier off-season signing and putting him with a guy who had 11 goals and 31 points in 78 games […]

Georgiev Bounces Back

The Rangers matched their season high of five goals, though this time they came away with a win.  Previously they had lost 5-8 to Carolina in the third game of the season, incidentally in Alexandar Georgiev‘s only other start.  While New York have scored 10 goals with Georgiev in net, they have managed just 10 in the seven […]

Quinn Gets First Win

Last night the Rangers picked up their first win of the season, coming from 2-1 down to score in the final three minutes of regulation and then just over 30 seconds into overtime.  Ir was the first tmie in franchise history that the Rangers have done this, with two defensemen scoring the goals within the […]

Fast Ready To Go, Beleskey Out 2-4 Weeks

Forward Jesper Fast returned to practice today after being held out for par tof the fourth preseason game against the Devils on Monday.  At the time head coach David Quinn and cautioned it was just for precautionary reasons, and with today’s return, he remains on track to join the operning night roster. The news on Matt Beleskey was a […]