Playoffs Baby Playoffs!
It hasn’t been the prettiest of seasons for the Rangers, but in the end they’ve given themselves a chance. Going into yesterday’s match ups between the Rangers and Devils, and the equally important Lightning and Hurricanes game later in the evening, you would have been forgiven if you though the odds were stacked against the […]
In Brandon We Prust
Just three pre-season games remaining, and only a handful of cuts before the October 6th roster deadline. You can almost smell the hockey in the air. Today’s Rangers Countdown player probably is as anxious to get in front of the MSG faithful as we are to see the team back on the ice. Player ProfileLooking […]
Season Ends Abruptly
With yesterday’s shootout loss to the Flyers, the Rangers’ season came abruptly to an end. Maybe I’d gotten too used to seeing post-season play, but for whatever reason the loss yesterday struck me as surprising, and of course more than a little disappointing. In many ways it was a fitting end to the season, a […]
Quiet Day For Rangers
The official NHL deadline has passed, and the Rangers will finish the season with pretty much the roster they went into the Olympic break with. The only move they made today, a switch of minor league forwards with the Detroit Red Wings involving Jordan Owens and Kris Newbury. Neither player is like to have much impact at the […]
Olympics Are Done: Game On!
The Rangers will reassemble Monday for their first practice since the Olympic break started two weeks ago, and they’ll face the daunting prospect of finding a way back into the top eight in the East. Placed tenth in the conference going into the break, the Blueshirts finished strongly with two wins over the Penguins and […]
Olympics Move Into High Gear
It’s the final day of the group round robin competition at the Olympics today, with the top six seeds all squaring off. In the 3:00pm game – on NBC, the Russians and Czechs will face each other for 1st place in Group B. The Czechs have the advantage here, requiring just a point from the […]
Rangers Feature On Day Two
All three Rangers in action on day two of Men’s Olympic hockey managed to make an impression. Henrik Lundqvist stopped all 21 shots he faced to secure a 2-0 win for Sweden over a feisty German squad in his first appearance of these games, while in the first game of the day, Olli Jokinen scored Finland’s opening goal to […]
Olympic Hockey Starts Today
Olympic Hockey gets underway in about an hour from now, with the United States taking on Team Switzerland. It’s one of three games today, but the only one featuring current Rangers. Chris Drury and Ryan Callahan will both be in the line-up and John Tortorella is one of the assistants behind the bench, while Rangers prospect Andres Ambuhl will be lining […]
Chuk Mate?
by Eric Vecchione The New York Rangers will announce the signing of 22 year-old Russian sniper Ilya Kovalchuk to a six-year, $7.8 million dollar contract on Thursday. Sound unbelievable? Not as much as you may think. As GMs around the league are in the process of putting together their rosters, Atlanta’s Kovalchuk remains the premier […]