Day 1 Summary
Day one of Rangers Training Camp started with 63 players on deck, but notably excluded from the list was veteran Wade Redden and prospects Randy McNaught and Chris Chappell. Redden will report directly to the Whale when they open up camp, while McNaught will return to the WHL. Chappell was not invited to camp last year either, and would seemingly […]
Your Captain, Number 24, Ryan Callahan!
by Jamy Baron It’s been a very long summer, a very sad summer, and a summer that is now coming to an end. After another impressive win by the Rangers prospects at Traverse City, the Rangers announced on Twitter that they would be naming the 26th Captain of the franchise tomorrow (today). Well, the waiting […]
Callahan Named 26th Captain
The Rangers have announced that Ryan Callahan will be the 26th captain of the New York Rangers, with Marc Staal and Brad Richards announced as alternates. Callahan becomes the first player born in the state of New York to captain the blueshirts, and just the third America born leader, following in the footsteps of Brian Leetch and Chris Drury. While Callahan had been favorite, there had […]
Rangers To Announce Captains
The Rangers have announced that they will release the names of the next captain and alternates tomorrow, through press release. No word on when the announcement might be made. Ryan Callahan is thought to be a leading contender, as is free agent signing Brad Richards. Marc Staal wore an A last season, and would seemingly be a good […]
Carton Continues To Embarrass Himself
by Jamy Baron As you may or may not know, Brad Richards was on “Boomer and Carton” this morning. What was supposed to be an interview, was instead a disgrace. Craig Carton, who notoriously hates hockey, could not stop himself from being Carton. Not only did he disrespect Richards with the non-stop “joking” that he put on […]
Summer of Love
It may sound counter intuitive, but the Rangers are likely to struggle this season, and could easily miss the playoffs for the second time in three years. You certainly wouldn’t come to that conclusion if you were to read the papers and what pundits the pundits are writing. The general consensus is that General Manager Glen […]
Callahan Resigns
With less than 24 hours remaining before his scheduled arbitration hearing, Ryan Callahan has accepted an offer for a three year contract with the Rangers. The deal will pay the Rochester native an average of $4.275M over each of the next three seasons, in exchange for giving up two years of potential free agency. The deal means […]
Buy High, Sell Low
Jesse Spector of the New York Daily News reports today that the Rangers will seek to buy out captain Chris Drury from the remaining year of his five year contract. The move will save around $3.3M in cap space this season, though it will also add an additional $1.7M or so to the 2012-13 cap figure. For […]
Game On Tonight!
Game one of the Eastern Conference Quarter Finals kicks off the tonight – 7:30pm Versus/MSG – with the Rangers happy to be back in the post season. They’ll also perhaps be looking for redemption for a 3-4 come from ahead series loss in 2009, which saw the Rangers fail to win any of the last […]
Inexperienced Rangers Head Into Playoffs
The Rangers head into their Wednesday night series opener with the Washington Capitals with a big hill to climb. Of the 20 man roster that played in the final game of the season, only thirteen have played in the post season before. Of those thirteen players, only four have played more than forty post season […]