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 […]
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 […]
2006-07 OTG Ex-Rangers All-Stars
First off we’d like to thank all those who voted in the 2006-07 Outside the Garden Ex-Rangers All-Stars and congratulations to Gorox who was randomly selected from those who voted and will receive an autographed puck from us. The poll marks the fifth year that we’ve asked you, the readers of OTG to vote for your favorite […]
For Sale
In my last column I approached the impending trade deadline (February 27th) as if the Rangers would be buyers. Given their fortunes since, and taking the position that recent comments by General Manager Glen Sather to the New York Post are indeed trustworthy, then it is perhaps not so far out of the question that […]
Nieminen Finished As A Ranger
The Rangers today made a peripheral move, dealing left wing Ville Nieminen to the San Jose Sharks in exchange for a 2006 3rd Round Pick. A healthy scratch in his last game as a Ranger, Nieminen had been in and out of the line-up several times as Rangers coach Tom Renney experimented with line combinations […]
Alternative Power Sources
by Mike Aker The Rangers recent three-game slide can be attributed as much to their one-dimensional power play as to tired legs playing seven games in ten nights. While the Blueshirts is ranked in the top ten in power play conversions, their production will continue to decrease if teams take notes from both Buffalo and […]
Blueshirts Keep It Going
The Rangers were coming off an emotional 4-1 victory over the Devils on Thursday night. The visiting Thrashers were down to their fourth string goaltender (fifth if you count the unplanned retirement of Pasi Nurminen in the Summer), and had given up seven power play goals in a 9-1 loss to Toronto the previous night. […]
Rangers Break Devils Streak At MSG
In the previous 19 games the Devils had played at Madison Square Garden, the visitors had come away with at least a point. In the past 42 regular season games between the two clubs the Rangers have registered just an 8-28-15-1…all with Martin Brodeur in net. And with the Rangers #1 netminder Kevin Weekes sidelined […]
Better Against Bruins
After being thoroughly outplayed last Tuesday, the Rangers returned to MSG for their preseason home opener against a Bruins team with just six established NHL players in their line-up and the likes of Joe Thornton, Sergei Samsonov, Brian Leetch, Glen Murray and Andrew Raycroft staying home. By contrast New York once again iced their top […]
Nieminen and Ward Join Team
Cup Finalist Ville Nieminen Joins RangersThe fourth day of the NHL free agency period brought yet more signings for the New York Rangers. Ville Nieminen, a member of the Calgary Flames squad that lost in seven games to the Tampa Bay Lightning, has reportedly signed a two year contract for an undisclosed sum. Known for […]