Mid Term Report Card

by Jim Samuels Give Glen Sather seventeen months and this is what you get. After four consecutive playoff misses the Rangers general manager has overhauled not only this floundering franchise, but the entire organization. Sather has found a way to add both talent and depth, two things sorely lacking on Broadway during their four year […]

Quarterly Report

by Jim Samuels Just over a month into the season and the Rangers have already reached the twenty game mark in this condensed, Olympic year schedule. The season’s first month has brought several surprises and much good fortune for the Blueshirts, who have gone a surprising 12-7-1 in their first twenty matches. General manager Glen […]

Week 5 Wrap-up

 by Jim Samuels The week that was for the New York Rangers, a new week that featured more of the same for this undisciplined, inconsistent bunch. Despite going a respectable 2-2 in the four games on the schedule this week, outscoring their opponents by an aggregate 13-12 score in the process, the Blueshirts continue to […]

Ten Game Report Card

by Jim Samuels One of the best aspects of writing in a forum the likes of Outside The Garden is you constantly get to ask questions that you don’t have to answer. Heading into this season the Rangers organization was filled with questions from top to bottom, Will Eric Lindros remain healthy? Can Mike Richter […]

Getting Defensive

We all know how bad the Rangers defense has been…particularly over the last three games where they’ve let in an astonishing 15 goals.  Much of the problems have been attributed to the Ranger defensemen and in recent days Brian Leetch, Vladimir Malakhov and Peter Smrek have been attacked vigorously for contributing to another weak start […]

Rangers v Senators

Extreme Views by RangerExtreme The Rangers may have played their best game to date against the Senators at the Corel Center in Ottawa Saturday Night. The Rangers at one point in the game were down by a score of 2-0 and mustered enough resiliency to fend the Senators offense off for both the final period […]

Week 2 Wrap-up

by Jim Samuels It seems strange to say that a team is searching for something to build on at this early juncture of the season, but that is exactly where the Rangers find themselves heading into Montreal for Monday’s match against the red-hot Canadiens. The Rangers hope to have found exactly what they were looking […]

Rangers v Capitals

Extreme Views by RangerExtreme The Capitals beat the Rangers on Wednesday night in what could best be described from the Rangers viewpoint as a special teams nightmare. . The Capitals and Rangers both came into the game with record of 1-1-0 with the Capitals coming off a very uninspired effort which saw them get shutout […]

Week 1 Wrap-up

by Jim Samuels A win is a win, that’s what they say in sports circles these days. The New York Rangers 76th season got underway this past weekend and two games into the 82 game marathon that is the NHL’s regular season, the Blueshirts are Even Steven after splitting a pair of games against eastern […]

Rangers v Sabres

Extreme Views by RangerExtreme The Rangers won their home opener against the Buffalo Sabres 5-4 in OT in which Ranger fans got to see Eric Lindros make his MSG debut. The game was a seesaw battle, which saw both teams lose leads several times. Brian Leetch got the game winner when he netted a overtime […]