Woody…Is That A….Johnson

Training Camp opened up today without any hitched, with 61 players in attendance. The roster included a number of invites, prospects and a handful of players signed to play with the Pack this season. One player who is on the Rangers’ payroll, but will play in Hartford this season is the subject of today’s Ranger […]
Rangers Add Minor Leaguers

The Rangers announced today that they made two separate deals, sending Jordan Owens to Detroit for forward Kris Newbury and Miika Wiikman, along with a seventh round pick to Phoenix for veteran defenseman Anders Eriksson. Neither move is expected to impact the Rangers, though both have NHL experience. The 35 year old Eriksson has played in 564 NHL regular season games […]
Rangers Lose To Sens, Recall Sauer

The Rangers modest three game winning streak is at an end, as well as their four game streak at MSG. The red-hot Senators came in and seemingly just outlasted the Rangers, coming back from a 1-0 deficit to record a 2-1 win and move into 11th in the East. For their part, New York missed an opportunity to jump over the Hurricanes and Penguins into […]
Senators Visit New York

The Rangers welcome the Senators to the Garden tonight (7:00pm – MSG) and may have a chance to jump back over Carolina and tie for fifth place – Philadelphia is leading Pittsburgh 2-0 currently, and if it’s decided in regulation, the Rangers could draw even with the loser. The Senators have really turned their season […]
Waiting For Saturday

Quiet day for the Rangers, with their next game not until Saturday night. The team had the day off yesterday, but returned to practice today. The team plays it’s next three games at MSG, but then has five of the final eight games on the road. At least they’ve improved in that regard. They’ve turned around […]
Staal Pots Two

Marc Staal two goals, but last year’s Young Stars MVP Brandon Dubinsky was kept off the board, as the All-Star festivities got under way. Henrik Lundqvist will play 20 minutes tonight in his first All-Star selection as the only Ranger representative. Lundqvist heads up the Daily News report card, and also features in this article from the Times Herald-Record. Former Rangers netminder Mike Richter is […]
Valliquette Backstops Shootout Shutout

The Rangers head into Detroit tonight (7:00pm – MSG) with a 6-1-0 record courtesy of Stephen Valiquette and his third NHL career shutout. The Rangers did it tough last night against the Leafs, needing a shootout to get one past Maple Leaf netminder Vesa Toskala and finish the game 1-0. Nikolai Zherdev opened up the scoring and Fredrik Sjostrom scored the game winner in the shootout, while Valiquette stopped two of the […]
Devils On For Tonight

The Rangers host the New Jersey Devils tonight (7:00pm – MSG) in their third game in four nights (they still have another three in the next five before they get four days off). Needless to say the Devils are keen to renew the rivalry after the Rangers went 11-1-1 and not losing a single game in regulation. According to […]
Back From Prague

Now that I’m back from Prague, OTG is back in action. Apologies for the gaps this preseason, but all sorts of things have gotten in the way this off-season culminating in a lack of internet access at my hotel in Prague. Thanks once again to Pavel, Martin and the other Czech Rangers fans for hosting […]
Some Things Never Change

by Mark Owens Let’s get one thing out of the way: Chris Drury will be the second-best captain the Rangers have had in the past 30 years. He is more than ready to lead this team, especially with seven new players and legends Jaromir Jagr and Brendan Shanahan out of the picture. The team’s average age is now 26, down from […]