Camp Opens With Sixty
Training Camp gets under way tomorrow with players reporting to the Rangers facilities in Greenburgh, NY for their physicals, before hitting the ice for the first time on Thursday. In all, sixty players have been invited to camp, with all contracted players expected to attend. With COVID still a prominent factor, those prospects set to […]
Prospect Camp Wraps Up
With today’s final practice cancelled, the Rangers 2021 Prospect Camp has officially wrapped up. The camp featured 27 players who came together on September 10th and finished it off with a home and home series with the Flyers prospects. The results aside (a 6-3 defeat on Saturday and a 3-2 win in the return match […]
Prospect Camp Roster Announced
Last year’s development and prospect camps never came to fruition, a victim of the COVID pandemic that saw the 2019-20 season suspended, and a draft held out in October. Over a year later, and the normal fixture that occurs right after the NHL Draft has been moved out as a replacement for the Traverse City […]
Kreider Third Liner
Winger Chris Kreider is going into his first full season since turning 30 in April, having played 573 regular season games and 78 in the post season across his 10 year career to date. He’s signed for another six years – including this one – and has a no move clause through to the 2023-24 season. The […]
Clues On What’s To Come
Pretty much everyone has said the Rangers need more grind and grit, and that of course came to a head late in the season following a sweep by the Islanders and of course that game against the Capitals. How that would be addressed appears to be becoming a littler clearer. The move Saturday were the […]
Roster Set For Opening Night
The NHL season kicks off tomorrow night, and the Rangers get under way a day later when they host the New York Islanders at MSG. With a final practice yesterday, the team made their decisions and settled on the 22 players who will be on the roster to begin the season. Among those 22 players […]
A Shortened Season – Perhaps It Helps
This past week the NHL Board of Governors met to get an update on the league’s plans for the 2020-21 season. While we didn’t get any decisions – and there’s a lot to be figured out and agreed upon in the interim – Gary Bettman’s position appears to be a 48-56 game schedule that would […]
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 […]