Biron Back On The Ice
Injured goaltender Martin Biron was cleared to skate today for the first time since suffering a broken collar bone back on February 28th. The Rangers’ backup netminder skated in full gear, but did not face any shots. There’s still no timetable for him to return to the Rangers line up, and there’s no expectation he’d get to […]
Game On Tonight!
Game one of the Eastern Conference Quarter Finals kicks off the tonight – 7:30pm Versus/MSG – with the Rangers happy to be back in the post season. They’ll also perhaps be looking for redemption for a 3-4 come from ahead series loss in 2009, which saw the Rangers fail to win any of the last […]
Inexperienced Rangers Head Into Playoffs
The Rangers head into their Wednesday night series opener with the Washington Capitals with a big hill to climb. Of the 20 man roster that played in the final game of the season, only thirteen have played in the post season before. Of those thirteen players, only four have played more than forty post season […]
Playoffs Edging Closer
Just a few short weeks ago at the trade deadline, the Rangers were very much at risk of missing the playoffs for a second straight year. A 4-6-1 record in the month of February – with only two wins in regulation – combined with improved play from Montreal, Carolina and Buffalo, had evaporated what was […]
Just One Minor Deal
The 2011 Trade Deadline has passed, and the Rangers limited their dealings with just the addition of 26 year old center John Mitchell from the Toronto Maple Leafs in exchange for a 2012 seventh round pick. Going into the day, there was plenty of press about the possibility of Brad Richards joining the team from Dallas. As it turned […]
Banged Up Rangers Take On Caps
The Rangers are in D.C. tonight to play the fifth placed Washington Capitals. Neither team has been terribly consistent this season, though both are coming off wins. The Blueshirts for their part took care of the Atlanta Thrashers 3-2 in a shootout Saturday night, battling back from a late 2-1 deficit with both Brandon Prust and Dan Girardi injured […]
Room For Optimism – Part II
Earlier today I put together reasons why I felt you could be optimistic about the upcoming Rangers season. In Part I, I applied a critical viewpoint to each of the teams in the Eastern Conference and highlighted questions that could be raised about almost every team. That’s not to say all those questions will remain unanswered, […]
Camp Fire Stories
Traditionally Rangers training camp has been more about getting veterans into shape, than any real competition for spots. Not so in 2010, when the Rangers entered the preseason preparations with an abundance of players looking to rebound, along with several good rookies looking to make their mark. Certainly not all questions have been resolved, but […]
Cam-tastic
We’re less than a week away from dropping the puck on the Rangers’ 85th season in the NHL. The league as a whole opens up Thursday at 12:00pm Eastern, when the Carolina Hurricanes and Minnesota Wild get things under way in Helsinki, Finland. In our late Rangers Countdown profile for today, we stay closer to […]
The Battle For Spots
Captain Chris Drury went and saw a hand specialist yesterday and will likely miss 3-4 weeks as originally reported – four weeks at most according to a quote from this morning’s NY Post. The good news is that he won’t require surgery, nor will he need a cast – unless he manages to damage it further over the […]