Rangers Trail 1-0

Well… Not much to say about last night’s game, other than to say the Rangers blew a golden opportunity to take a 1-0 series lead on the road. The keys to the game for me were the 2nd and 4th goals that the Rangers gave up…the former just 12 seconds after the Rangers made it […]

Week Off Might Be Double-Edged Sword

After a seven day wait and plenty of talk, the Eastern Conference Semifinal series between the Rangers and Penguins finally gets under way tonight (7:00pm – Versus). If the Rangers are to win the series, they’ll need to neutralize Sidney Crosby. While Evgeni Malkin lead the Penguins in the regular season, Crosby is probably their key player, and the Rangers will need to keep a lid […]

Penguins Up Next

So it’s going to be Rangers vs Penguins for the matchup in the Eastern Conference Semifinals, and we’ll likely have to hear endless gushing over the play of Sidney Crosby for the next week or two. While there’s no comments dismissing their opponents, like we heard from Sean Avery and Tom Renney last year with respect to the Sabres, there are high expectations for the […]

Penguin On The Menu

Since the Penguins came into the league back in 1967-68, the two teams have met in the finals just three times. In each of those three series, the Penguins have come out victors, winning in 1989 4-0, again in 1992 4-2 on the way to their second Stanley Cup and again in 1996 by the […]

Rangers Buy Kovalev

by Steve Giacobello In what probably won’t be the last attempt to save the most disgraceful season in the history of the New York Rangers, GM Glen Sather, who guaranteed that his team will make the playoffs, increased the Rangers payroll to nearly 80 million by trading for Alexei Kovalev from the cash starved Pittsburgh […]