Deja Blue
For those of you who’ve been following the team long enough to remember the pre-lockout days, you’ll be no doubt familiar with the position the Rangers find themselves today. Even if you’re a relative newbie, you’ll likely know just by hanging around with the rest of Ranger fandom, that this is a position that the […]
Rangers Get An Oil Change
The 1994 Stanley Cup victory was perhaps the most important date in franchise history for the New York Rangers. Fifty four years of futility, mismanagement and bad luck was erased in an instant, thanks in large part to the Edmonton Oilers dynasty of the late 1980s. No less than eight players that season (seven in […]
2006-07 OTG Ex-Rangers All-Stars
First off we’d like to thank all those who voted in the 2006-07 Outside the Garden Ex-Rangers All-Stars and congratulations to Gorox who was randomly selected from those who voted and will receive an autographed puck from us. The poll marks the fifth year that we’ve asked you, the readers of OTG to vote for your favorite […]
2003-04 Ex-Ranger All-Stars
For the fourth consecutive year, Outside The Garden has searched around the league for the best and fairest of former Ranger players and properties. This year things were a little more exciting with the addition of several high profile players to the “Ex-Ranger” ranks when GM Glen Sather purged the roster of a number of […]
2004 OTG Awards
Each of the past three seasons we’ve asked you the Outside The Garden readers to vote for the best and worst of the Rangers from the past season. In the past there have been a couple of surprises here and there, but with such turmoil and change this season, pe Most Valuable Player: Matthew BarnabyWhenever […]
One Was Born A Faliure
by Jess Rubenstein In watching the events of the last 48 hours, I can’t help but to wonder if someone had listened to Frank Brown back in 1997 that we would not have suffered though 7 years of a crappy hockey team. Frank Brown was the beat reporter for the Daily News who suggested in […]
Players To Watch
by Matt Pennino Players To Watch Listed below are the players, in my opinion that should be watched closely this season. Some have a lot of pressure on them to produce, while others just need to be solid. This is only my opinion. I may have left some other important players off the list. It […]
An Important Addition
by Timmy Corbett Jussi Markkanen could currently be the most important ranger on the roster. “Bull!”, or something harsher, you say? Seriously. Any fan of hockey can agree that a goalie will always have a harder time adjusting to the big leagues than any other position, defensemen need to adapt to forwards, likewise forwards to […]
Markkanen Signs
Goaltender Jussi Markkanen agreed to a contract today, terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Markkanen had been considering whether to return to his native Finland this season, but a June 30th trade sent him from Edmonton to New York with a conditional 4th round pick in exchange for the rights to Brian Leetch. […]
A Summer Of Many Things
by Jess Rubenstein The Summer of 2003 will most likely become one of the most frustrating summers that Ranger fans will have had in years. Sadly but perhaps rightfully it looks like the apparent suicide of Ranger farmhand Roman Lyashenko is going to the biggest news to come out of it. For most of July […]