Deja Blue
For those of you who’ve been following the team long enough to remember the pre-lockout days, you’ll be no doubt familiar with the position the Rangers find themselves today. Even if you’re a relative newbie, you’ll likely know just by hanging around with the rest of Ranger fandom, that this is a position that the […]
Grass Isn’t Always Greener
As of March 3rd, 2009, the Rangers sat in eighth spot in the Eastern Conference, six points out of home ice advantage for at least one round, and just one point ahead of the ninth placed Hurricanes. With just eighteen games remaining, the Rangers are not focused on building momentum for the playoffs, but are […]
Rangers Get An Oil Change
The 1994 Stanley Cup victory was perhaps the most important date in franchise history for the New York Rangers. Fifty four years of futility, mismanagement and bad luck was erased in an instant, thanks in large part to the Edmonton Oilers dynasty of the late 1980s. No less than eight players that season (seven in […]
Mistaken Identity
Submitted by LETSGORANGERS July 17th, 2006 Several years ago, I went to see the Rangers play in Tampa, because I knew they would stay in the hotel right across from the arena. So I went with my girlfriend at the time and we took her niece, we all got there very early, so we could catch the […]
2002-03 OTG Awards
For the second time Outside The Garden has turned to you the fans to assess the good and the bad of the Rangers in the past season. Like last year there were some players who were well liked while others were the dubious victors in several categories. So here for your amusement are the 2002-03 […]
2002-03 Ex-Ranger All Stars
As we head into what can only be described as a surprising Stanley Cup Finals series between the New Jersey Devils and Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, it is once again time to look at the best and fairest amongst those who were once Rangers. With the loss of John Vanbiesbrouck and Ray Ferraro to retirement […]
Tougher Rangers Have Big Questions
by Charles Solomon Glen Sather had a busy off-season this summer. By acquiring unrestricted free agents Bobby Holik and Darius Kasparaitis he added toughness that the Rangers sorely lacked last season. Slats also subtracted cancerous mediocrity in the forms of Bryan Berard, Michal Grosek, and Andreas Johansson. The antics of Theo Fleury are also no longer a concern […]
1st Annual OTG Awards – The Good
1st Annual OTG Awards – The Good Just days after the NHL announced their annual awards, we too have decided to release the results of our first annual vote to select the best and the worst of the past Rangers season. Technical difficulties have prevented us from being able to make an award for the […]
York Traded!
The Rangers finally ended the speculation today when they exchanged Mike York and a draft pick for defenseman Tom Poti and left winger Rem Murray. In a matter of a week Rangers GM Glen Sather has traded two fan favorites for a couple of former Oiler picks in Rucinsky and Poti. The American born Poti […]