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 […]
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, […]
White Out
Less than 24 hours until the NHL season gets under way now, and just under two hours before teams have to submit their NHL rosters for the start of the season, it’s almost time for games to actually count. I had to wait a little later to submit this profile, because I wasn’t sure whether […]
Cap In Hand?
Pretty much since the current CBA between the NHL and player’s association was signed, I have wondered how the NHL calculated the salary cap during the off-season. When could a player be reassigned to the minor leagues? How many players, and indeed, which players counted towards the cap? So when one of the OTG faithful […]
Putting Out The Brash
Nothing feels quite so good as getting rid of something you don’t really want, especially something that has been taking up valuable space in your garage…like that old lawn mower, refrigerator, sofa or overpriced NHL contract to player who doesn’t have the goods any more. Unfortunately in the NHL world, it’s not quite as easy […]
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 […]
Olympics Are Done: Game On!
The Rangers will reassemble Monday for their first practice since the Olympic break started two weeks ago, and they’ll face the daunting prospect of finding a way back into the top eight in the East. Placed tenth in the conference going into the break, the Blueshirts finished strongly with two wins over the Penguins and […]
Olympics Move Into High Gear
It’s the final day of the group round robin competition at the Olympics today, with the top six seeds all squaring off. In the 3:00pm game – on NBC, the Russians and Czechs will face each other for 1st place in Group B. The Czechs have the advantage here, requiring just a point from the […]
Brash Decisions
Multiple sources today – including Bob McKenzie on Twitter – report the Rangers have placed Donald Brashear on waivers. Not that anyone should get too excited just yet. The 38 year old veteran is likely to remain unclaimed and stay with the team through the rest of this season and next. At issue, a two year contract for $1.4 […]