Opening Night Statistics
The Rangers are set for their 2009-10 season opener tonight in Pittsburgh (7:30pm – MSG) and they’ll be looking to extend their unbeaten streak in the first game of the season to five games. In fact the Rangers haven’t lost a season opener since the lockout, and are 6-3-1-0 in their last ten seasons on […]
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 […]
The Devil You Know
The season opened with Darren Langdon getting the game winner in Carolina and then Alexei Kovalev scored his second career hattrick against the Rangers back in January. Just another example of a former Ranger coming back to bite his team. But perhaps these were the exceptions rather than the rule, after all what other former […]
Sather, Year One…A Look Back
by Jim Samuels When Glen Sather was brought to New York some fifteen months ago, he was given a challenge, turn this once proud franchise back into a perennial cup contender and more importantly, get the New York Rangers back on the front page of the local tabloids and on the airwaves of New York’s […]
Much Ado About Something
It’s been ugly this off-season for Rangers GM Glen Sather. At least that’s what many of the regular scribes will tell you should you happen to listen. After “missing out” on the big Colorado trio and then the likes of Weight, Jagr, Turgeon and Hasek, there are more than a few doom and gloomers around. Far […]