New York Rangers Overview from NHL.com
by Jim Schmiedeberg on Aug 20, 2009 8:21 AM EDT
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NHL.com is doing a "30 teams in 30 days" segment, where they pretty much take an overview of each team's offseason. Today they focus on the Rangers. Honestly, I don't think there is much here we haven't already brought you, but it's still a good read on an otherwise slow day:
Rangers offseason goal was to find more scoring. (click link for full story)
Highlights:
It certainly will be an interesting mix for the Rangers in 2009-10. Of last season's top six scorers, only team captain Chris Drury, who was third with 56 points, currently is under contract. Leading scorer Nik Antropov left for Atlanta, Scott Gomez was dealt to Montreal, Markus Naslund retired and Nikolai Zherdev became an unrestricted free agent after the club lost his arbitration hearing and opted to walk away from the one-year, $3.9 million deal the player was awarded. Brandon Dubinsky is a restricted free agent, but likely will get a new contract.
The Rangers also will get a full season from uber-pest Sean Avery, whose dealings with Tortorella should continue to be interesting to watch. Tortorella suspended Avery for Game 5 of the club's first-round playoff series against Washington and likely won't hesitate to pull Avery out of the lineup again if his antics begin adversely affecting the team.
Tortorella said he's entering his first training camp as Rangers coach with a blank slate.
"I'm going to be as objective as possible," he told NHL.com. He added that he has no problem going with a younger team than the Rangers have traditionally fielded.
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An average defense?
Weren’t the Rangers in the top 3 or 4 in goals allowed last season? Granted, Hank had something to do with that, but I still think the Rangers defense was way above average overall.
i was actualy
kind of dumbfounded reading that too. I think that they actualy skimped out on the ranger section of 30 in 30, disappointing.
Better than average
but not top 5
Tied for 6th with Washington @ 2.71 GA/G. Pitt was 5th @ 2.67
It was an OK article, but nothing earth-shattering.
Not a chance in hell
The Rangers have a terrible defense. Henrik didnt have something to do with it, he was the sole reason they even sniffed the top 5.
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Staal and Girardi are solid. Mara had an excellent season. The combination of Kalinin and Morris didn’t kill us.
Re & Ro, while overpaid and apparently hated, had average defensive seasons. They get blasted because they’re supposed to provide offense and in that Rozsival and especially Redden failed.
Hank certainly helps, but to say he’s the sole reason is an overstatement.
by George E. Ays on Aug 20, 2009 12:57 PM EDT up reply actions
Agreed
Plus, with Renney’s defense first system, they usually had at least a 3rd player back to pick up the other team’s forwards. Drury, Callahan, Dubinsky, Betts, Sjostrom, etc. all played pretty safe defensively, even though their +/- were in the negative. How Zherdev had the only + on the team is quite puzzling to me.
by stonecoldcory on Aug 20, 2009 1:04 PM EDT up reply actions
It really is kind of average.
Staal and Girardi arent stars yet. Redden and Rozival are just average defensemen themselves. and were gonna have two ROOKIES on the backline this season as well. I dont know who would even dare to say the defense is anything better than average.
and yea I was very disappointed with the article it was very boring.
by CrazyRangerFan on Aug 20, 2009 12:13 PM EDT reply actions
Sometimes...
nhl.com really drops the ball…er puck?!
Not once was there any mention of the Rangers, or their fans, being scared of Tavares and the Isles!
They call that a preview? ;)
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Anybody watch the videos?
Hank’s best? It was good, but of all his saves way to pick that one… seriously. You couldn’t pick his save on Savard, a different one on Carcillo, or his save on Semin, just to name a few.
PK for the Ages? Yes the Rangers killed off that powerplay by the Capitals but the Capitals also got their fair share of scoring chances in the video. Ovechkin even hit the post. The penalty kill was terrific last year, and like above, to showcase it you show this video? how about showing the penalty kill unit, idk, in a more dominating fashion than that?
7-game classic? Cmon like Rangers fans want to relive what happened. That video if anything should be shown in the Capitals segment.
The article was nothing special. These videos just make the Rangers’ segment seem cheaply made.
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It was cheaply made. Why do they put a “?” after Hanks best saves"?"?
I was very disappointed in that read. It was all excerpts pulled from stuff posted all off season on the Rangers main page. I’m not normally on other teams main pages so maybe that’s what they did with all of them, but I was expecting something a little more. Maybe even (dare I say) original?
only thing that was interesting was the part about our prospects. nice to see a perspective about those guys that isnt directly from the inside.
our defensemen were average last year but defensively we are pretty good bc we have hank and some good defensive minded forwards. i think sometimes we lose sight of that
The Rangers always get the raw end of the deal
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i hate watching game on versus and nbc…they always crap on the rangers and it gets so annoying…and they really really love the flyers…man i hate those networks when they cover ranger games…also i never read anything positive about the rangers from networks outside the new york area…like espn, nhl.com, si.com…its such bullsh*t…..man it pisses me off
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check this out...
http://www.ryanclassic.net/classicblog/2009/8/19/anatomy-of-a-trade-nikolai-zherdev.html
this article explains why sather is an idiot
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NHL 10…. Can’t wait for that game to hit shelved…..EA better have shown the love on the ranger roster. And btw our defense is much better than people realize. We have 2 shut down d men in stall and girardi. The youngsters on the way up will be fine too. Don’t sleep on em cause we are primed for a breakout from our young players.
by RangerFan5 on Aug 20, 2009 8:07 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Who shuts down???
So it seems the consensus among us speculators is the line will look as follows:
Prospal Dubie Gaborik
Higgins Drury Callahan
Avery Anisimov Kalinin
Brashear Boyle Lisin
Obviously there may be some interchangeability(if that’s a word) between Higgins and Avery and maybe Prospal, and also between Callahan and Kalinin, but the question is:
Which line is going to shut down the other teams #1 and sometimes #2 lines???
Who will provide the support in the defensive zone against the likes of Ovechkin & Semin, or Crosby & Malkin? Is Propsal that kind of player, because if so, he and Dubie may make a nice backchecking tandem? Or should Torts be expected to send Drury’s line out there everytime we see those truly gifted goal scorers?? I don’t think Anisimov will be expected to, nor do I think that’s his game and our 4th line is clearly not good enough to see any significant ice time, especially under Torts.
There’s been a lot of discussion about how this team is better than last year, and it ALL focuses on goals scored. Is this line-up going to score so many more goals that it will balance the increase in goals surrendered?
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| GP | W | L | OTL | PT | |
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New York Rangers
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51 | 33 | 13 | 5 | 71 |
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Philadelphia
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53 | 30 | 16 | 7 | 67 |
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New Jersey
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53 | 31 | 19 | 3 | 65 |
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Pittsburgh
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54 | 30 | 19 | 5 | 65 |
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New York Islanders
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52 | 22 | 22 | 8 | 52 |
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Philadelphia
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Sat 02/11 | 1:00 PM EST |
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Washington
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Sun 02/12 | 12:30 PM EST |
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Boston
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Tue 02/14 | 7:00 PM EST |
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Chicago
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Thu 02/16 | 7:00 PM EST |
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New Jersey
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Tue 02/07 | L 0 - 1 |
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Philadelphia
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Sun 02/05 | W 5 - 2 |
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Wed 02/01 | SO - W 1 - 0 |
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