Draft Recap: Focus On Size With A Couple Of Skill Guys

The focus in Chris Drury‘s first draft as General Manager, was clearly on size and physicality.  With nine picks going into the draft, the team would ultimately end up with eight new prospects, making just the one trade – sending the third round #80 pick along with the sixth round #168 to Washington for the third […]

DeAngelo Situation Nearing Resolution

There’s a lot of words that can describe Tony DeAngelo, gifted, outspoken and passionate amongst them.  In the relatively vanilla world of hockey, where players are coached on how to talk to reporters, and avoid saying almost anything, the 25 year old New Jersey native stands out. Whether it be his much talked about support […]

Still No Captain

There’s been much speculation over whether the Rangers will announce a captain this year after having been without one since the departure of Ryan McDonagh three years ago.  The answer: Not yet. Instead of naming a captain, David Quinn again went the alternate route, naming four players who will serve as Alternate Captains this season. No surprise, […]

New Faces On PK

With the departure of the likes of Jesper Fast, Greg McKegg and Marc Staal, it was obvious the Rangers were going to need some new faces on the PK.  Who those faces will be have been revealed as the team closes out their camp ahead of tomorrow night’s season opener against the New York Islanders. Unsurprisingly, Adam Fox, Ryan Lindgren and Jacob Trouba all […]

The Team Is Kind Of The Same

If you look at the team that lost 0-3 in the qualifying round back in August, you would see just a handful of changes.  Gone are the two longest tenured Rangers in Henrik Lundqvist (buy-out) and Marc Staal (trade), as well as the fourth longest in Jesper Fast (free agency). Also moving on are Greg McKegg and Micheal Haley, as well as depth players Cristoval […]

Jesper Fast Signs With Hurricanes

For much of the time since the rebuild became official, there’s been a vocal portion of the Ranger fan base that have wanted the team to move on from Jesper Fast.  Despite being a five time player’s player choice on the team, many Blueshirt faithful have not seen the value of his steady defense, and occasional […]

Free Agency Opens Up Tomorrow

Friday October 12th at 12pm Eastern marks the opening up of the Free Agency period, and the Rangers are still looking to make some changes to their roster.  While the second center position remains one of the areas of focus, the Rangers now have to look at options for addressing their short term needs on […]

Net New

The Rangers projected line up for tomorrow’s opening Qualifying Round match will feature a lot of playoff newbies.  In fact nine of the roster will make their first post season NHL appearance, after all these games will statistically count towards the player’s playoff stats, even if they are deemed a “qualifying” round. The nine include […]

Marc Staal to Return Tonight

Having missed the last 14 games following surgery on his ankle, Marc Staal looks set to return to the line up tonight in the place of the injured Libor Hajek.  Staal has been skating as part of the team’s full practice for the last week, and was going to force David Quinn to make a decision one way […]

Has Trouba Topped Out

When the Rangers acquired Jacob Trouba over the summer, the thought was that he would become the top pair defenseman the Rangers had been searching for since trading Ryan McDonagh.  He brought a bit of offense, an edge to defense and could play against the top lines of the other teams. At 25 years old, that’s a pretty […]