Loss Puts Rangers In A Tough Spot
If you were one of those – like me – who stayed home yesterday to watch the Rangers play the Bruins, you could be forgiven if you fell asleep before the excitement late in the third period of a 1-0 loss. The Bruins did their best impression of the Devils teams under Jacques Lemaire, sending barely […]
Gernander Hangs Em Up
After a fourteen year professional career, Ken Gernander has decided to call it quits. The only captain the Hartford Wolf Pack has ever known, Gernander is expected to join the Wolf Pack coaching staff as an assistant going forward. Drafted in the fifth round of the 1987 NHL Entry Draft by the Winnipeg Jets, Gernander […]
Future Forward: Right Wing
With all that has gone on this season, the Rangers faithful are desperate for whatever silver lining they can lay their hands on. While many are happy that the organization looks as if it is finally heading in the right direction, it’ll be the future on which the Rangers will have to depend for their […]
Dark Days
These are dark days to be a Ranger fan, there is no doubt about that. A franchise record seven years without the playoffs in the easiest league in which to qualify, a league high salary over that time and a General Manager who is wildly unpopular with the fan base. And to top things off, […]
Training Camp – Day 2
The buzz around this year’s training camp is that things are a little different this year. The roster is just two thirds the size of last year’s total of eighty, and the consensus is that camp under Glen Sather is more about work and skills and less about meaningless scrimmages. That’s not to say that […]
Packing It In
It has become a little bit of a Hartford tradition under the tenure of Rangers General Manager Glen Sather…out with the old and in with the new, and this off-season is certainly no different. While Neil Smith was loyal to a handful of veteran players, Sather has preferred instead to use the Pack as a […]
First Cuts At Camp
Finally! The Rangers are back in camp and back on the ice. This week we take a look at Training Camp and try to look at what the Rangers may look like when the puck finally drops October 5th. Last weekend saw the completion of the annual rookie tournament up in Kitchener, Ontario. The Rangers […]