Projected Line-up Against Flyers
The Rangers are projected to go into their second pre-season game with a significantly different roster from last night’s opening preseason victory against the Devils. Tony DeAngelo and Pavel Buchnevich get their second games, while eighteen players will see their first action of the preseason. The players to miss out include forward invitee Bobby Butler and veteran Mats […]
Four More Cut
Four more players were cut today, bringing the Rangers training camp roster down to 34, with a minimum of 10 cuts still to be made – assuming Jesper Fast goes on LTIR. The team will likely see more cuts tomorrow after tonight’s game against the Flyers – MSG 7:30pm, ahead of their final preseason game on Tuesday. […]
Day Sent Down
The Rangers announced three more cuts to the training camp roster today, leaving 46 players remaining heading into tonight’s game against the Islanders. Perhaps a modest surprise is the inclusion of defenseman Sean Day as one of the three. Day was yet to be rostered to play a preseason game, and has plenty of competition for […]
Bereglazov To Make Debut
Russian free agent signing, Alexei Bereglazov will make his Rangers debut tonight against the New York Islanders. He, gotaltender Chris Nell and forward Malte Stromwall will see their first action of the preseason ahead of tomorrow’s anticipated second round of roster cuts. Signed out of the KHL, where he’s spent the past four years with the Magnitogorsk team, Bereglazov was initially […]
Projected Line-up Against Devils
Both of the Rangers’ 2017 first round picks will be in the line-up for Game 2 tonight against the Devils. Filip Chytil – pronounced HEE-tal – looks to have earned a chance to show his offensive prowess, centering veterans Mats Zuccarello and Chris Kreider. Having just turned 18, Chytil will be thrust into the forefront in his first professional […]
Lineup Set For Preseason Opener
The Rangers go into tomorrow’s preseason opener against the Islanders with a very inexperienced line-up. Only 14 of the 20 players have NHL experience including try-outs Andrew Desjardins and Bobby Farnham. Of the 14, only 6 were regulars with the Rangers last year including Pavel Buchnevich, Michael Grabner, Nick Holden, Ryan McDonagh, J.T. Miller and Rick Nash. Veteran AHLers Cole Schneider and Paul Carey will get […]
Center Of Attention
Derek Stepan will likely miss the first month of the season due to a fractured fibula in his left leg. The Minnesota native collapsed during conditioning exercises yesterday after exacerbating an injury thought to have occurred back on September 9th during informal skates, when he blocked a shot. The news of the injury is disappointing of […]
Mixed Results In First Preseason Outing
The Rangers opened up their preseason with a 5-4 loss against the Devils at home. It was a shaky defensive performance, against a fairly weak Devils line-up that featued Scott Clemmensen and Keith Kinkaid in net, against New York’s projected opening pair of Henrik Lundqvist and Cam Talbot. It was a chance for several Rangers to push their […]
Stepan Could Miss Season Opener
The Rangers and Derek Stepan remain about $500,000 apart per year on a two-year bridge contract according to Darren Dreger – TSN. The 23 year old Minnesota native has no leverage other than to hold out, and he has so far missed the first ten days of camp and two preseason games. For their part, the Rangers find […]
Preseason Schedule Announced
The Rangers today announced their preseason schedule, with six road games to kick off their 2013-14 Stanley Cup campaign. With MSG still undergoing rennovations, the Blueshirts will spend their first week with two games against the division rival Devils and Flyers, before heading west to play their remaining four games against the Oilers, Flames, Canucks […]