Rangers News: A few late day odds and ends from Blue Notes

In the Posts’ Slap Shots segment of the paper, Larry Brooks touched on the Upstate Rangers coverage and battle with the Sabres.

http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/islanders/isles_season_must_be_about_hockey_G5tABmwNyd48O0EEb1eDRK

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Bill Daly apparently says the Rangers footprints are north and east of the city, meaning a) they’re either in the Bruins territory of New England or b) as Brooksie touches upon, in the ocean.

Bill Daly, you’re an idiot. Its insulting for someone to tell Upstate fans what market they live in. I think they know, and you obviously don’t.

“The question, posed in e-mails from disgruntled fans in the Albany region (as opposed to the gruntled ones who never seem to write), is why the Rangers are blacked out on television when Sabres’ games conflict even though the capitol region is in far closer proximity to Manhattan than Buffalo.

The answer, as provided in an e-mail by deputy commissioner Bill Daly is that the Albany region is a “shared territory” for the Sabres, Rangers, Devils and Islanders, and that the Sabres are given precedence, “because the Rangers’ footprint has traditionally pushed north and east (not north and west) and the Sabres’ out-of-market territory has historically been New York State outside of the metropolitan area.”

If, then, you’re a Rangers fan whose footprints are north and east of the city, you likely are making them on a beach off the Atlantic Ocean. But you might be able to watch the games."

Right Bill Daly, because you know Upstate NY better than Upstaters do?