Rangers Trim Roster
Seemingly the only move remaining for the Rangers before Wednesday’s 3pm deadline to file final rosters, will be to give Ruslan Fedotenko a contract. That’s because today they re-assigned rookie defensemen Pavel Valentenko and Ryan McDonagh to Hartford, trimming their roster to 25 players. They have to get down to 23, but with Chris Drury and Vinny Prospal likely heading to IR, that […]
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 […]
Christmas Comes Early For Rangers
It hasn’t always been pretty, but the Rangers have now run their winning streak to four games and are once again back in the top eight in the Eastern Conference going into the Christmas break. A 4-1 win over the Florida Panthers (who’d won four of five) was the best game in recent memory for a team that may be finally getting […]
Dubinsky Signed, Rangers Cut 5 More
The Rangers and Brandon Dubinsky have finally ended their contract impasse, with the 23 year old center signing a two year deal late yesterday worth $3.7M. The deal was shortly announced after Phil Kessel was traded to Toronto, which suggests at least to this observer that the Rangers were still considering pursuing that route. For the record, Dubinsky held out for eight days and […]
[Cap] Space…The Final Frontier
As the cliche goes, things could be worse. If Markus Naslund hadn’t elected to retire, the Rangers would find themselves back in a Salary Cap hole right now. As it is, things are still tight, what with Nikolai Zherdev, Chris Higgins, Brandon Dubinsky, Ryan Callahan and Lauri Korpikoski needing to be re-signed. All that room freed up by the trade of Scott Gomez to Montreal […]