You’ve heard all of the complaints:
The Rangers can’t score!
They have so much talent (allegedly) but their offense is stagnant and their power play is putrid.
They are a team of second-fiddles being paid first-fiddle money.
And the retorts?
Renney is a defense-first coach.
This team will win with solid goaltending and solid defense.
Drury and Gomez might not score 25 [...]
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Posted in 5-hole.com Pick 'em, tagged Avalanche, blackhawks, Blue Jackets, Chris Simon, crazy hockey woman hits dude, Crosby, Devils, Ducks, Flyers, ilya kovalchuk, Maple Leafs, marty mcsorley, Nittymaki, Oilers, Panthers, Penguins, Phillips Arena luxury suites, rangers, Thrashers, virgin mary, virgin mary's boobs on Friday, January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In this edition of 5-hole.com Pick ‘em, we feature our first ever dueling gimmies. That’s right… I picked the Devils and made them my gimmie, while Eric picked the Blue Jackets as his gimmie. (Note to MSG Plus: we expect a commission for bumping up the ratings for tonight’s game).
In other news, this woman decided [...]
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Posted in NHL, New York Rangers, tagged 590 The Fan, contract, Kalinin, mats sundin, McCown, new york rangers, Potter, rangers, rozsival, sign, Sundin on Monday, December 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
At least that’s what Bob McCown of The Fan 590 – Toronto’s Sports Radio – is reporting. Here’s the direct quote from their Twitter: “Bob McCown reports a source close to Mats Sundin says he will sign with the New York Rangers any day now.”
And Sam Weinman is reporting that the Rangers have [...]
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Posted in New York Rangers, tagged brendan shanahan, Drury, Fritsche, Hartford, Naslund, Patrick Rissmiller, prucha, rangers, salary cap, waive, waivers on Wednesday, October 22, 2008 | 8 Comments »
The Rangers freed up some room on their cap by waiving Rissmiller. (Ideally for the Rangers, nobody else will claim him, and he will end up in Hartford for the season.)
I don’t know about everyone else, but I’d much rather see Brendan Shanahan skating along side Drury and Naslund than a constantly rotating winger group [...]
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Posted in Game Previews, NHL, New York Rangers, tagged chris drury, Dan Fritsche, henrik lundqvist, Lauri Korpikoski, Maple Leafs, marcus naslund, new york, new york rangers, nigel dawes, Patrick Rissmiller, petr prucha, rangers, ryan callahan, ryan hollweg, scott gomez, stephen valiquette, tom renney, toronto on Friday, October 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
OK they lost. It was bound to happen eventually. Let’s just move on and see if they can rebound from such a terrible outing.
There are a few roster changes to note:
Stephen Valiquette will get the start tonight to give Henrik Lundqvist a break for tomorrow’s game in Detroit.
Lauri Korpikoski will be scratched with an arm [...]
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Posted in Miscellaneous, NHL, New York Rangers, tagged alexei cherepanov, dead, heart, jaromir jagr, KHL, new york, omsk, rangers on Monday, October 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Rangers 2007 first round draft pick died today near the end of Omsk’s KHL game. He and Jaromir Jagr collided right before the incident.
From Puck Daddy:
According to comments on SportBox.ru it was [Jaromir] Jagr’s elbow. Jagr is Cherepanov’s teammate. Apparently Jagr didn’t see him. Afterwards Jagr was shouting “Wake up Alexei” and was [...]
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Posted in Game Previews, NHL, New York Rangers, tagged Aaron Voros, brandon dubinsky, broadstreet bullies, flyer killer, Flyers, meltyourfaceoff, new york, Nikolai Zherdev, Philadelphia, playstation line, r.j. umberger, rangers, sami kapanen, sarah palin, stephen valiquette on Saturday, October 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Aside from trading R.J. Umberger to Columbus and Sami Kapanen retiring, not very much went on with the Flyers this offseason. Yes, last season they shot from the league basement to the Conference Finals, but they still got thrashed by our back-up goalie whenever we played them. Stevie V posted a 3-0-1 record against [...]
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Posted in Game Previews, NHL, New York Rangers, tagged Aaron Voros, blackhawks, blair betts, brandon dubinsky, Brian Campbell, chicago, chris drury, Colton Orr, cristobal huet, dan girardi, Dmitri Kalinin, Flyers, henrik lundqvist, jaromir jagr, Lauri Korpikoski, Madison Square Garden, marc staal, marcus naslund, michal rozsival, new york, nigel dawes, Nikolai Zherdev, paul mara, Penguins, petr prucha, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, rangers, ryan callahan, scott gomez, Stanley Cup, stephen valiquette, tom renney, Wade Redden on Friday, October 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I guess you could call this a Season Preview but we’ll just call it the Game Preview. Also, today is my birthday!
Back on October 5, 2005, the New York Rangers played a game for the first time in over a year. The NHL was finally back after a lock-out that led to the [...]
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Posted in NHL, New York Rangers, tagged brendan shanahan, Devils, Dmitri Kalinin, henrik lundqvist, jaromir jagr, joel lundqvist, marcus naslund, Marek Malik, martin brodeur, New Jersey, new york, rangers, Sean Avery, Wade Redden on Sunday, October 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Is this introduction and season preview horribly late? Yes. Is this probably not going to be published until after the season technically begins? Yes. But do you care all that much? Probably not. If you’re that pissed, blame Eric.
Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Rory, and I’m an angry, sarcastic, die-hard, 3rd-generation Ranger [...]
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