Rangers News: Sources Say Rangers Close to Ending Affiliation With Hartford
by Jim Schmiedeberg on May 22, 2010 9:46 PM EDT
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First of all, major stick salute goes to Donny over at Litter Box Cats for sending this to me. It looks like the Rangers may be on the verge of changing their AHL affiliation from the Hartford Wolfpack to the Rochester Americans, who this week announced they will not extend their affiliation with the Florida Panthers, after Amerks ownership made some harsh comments regarding their poor relationship with the Cats.
The Biz of Hockey has the story, here are the highlights: (click link for full story):
The New York Rangers will likely change their AHL affiliation from the Hartford Wolfpack to the Rochester Americans beginning in the 2011-’12 season, a source close to the situation told Biz of Hockey.
According to the source, the Rangers, who reside approximately six hours from Rochester, are unhappy with their relationship with the Wolfpack and are very interested in becoming the parent club of the Americans. Rumors surfaced that the Wolfpack might not be returning in February when the Albany River Rats, the AHL affiliate of the Carolina Hurricanes, were relocated to North Carolina. The Albany Times Union said, "Among the teams rumored to be looking elsewhere are the Hartford WolfPack, owned by the New York Rangers, and Lowell Devils."
Though details of the deal have not yet come available, it appears the Rangers will be moving their AHL club back upstate (the team was once affiliated with Binghamton), just not to Albany or Syracuse.
One of the early stops in Rangers Head Coach John Tortorella's coaching career was in Rochester, he was an assistant and a head coach there, winning the Calder Cup in 1996. Former Rangers coach Mike Keenan also coached the Americans to a Calder Cup in 1983. Also, Director of Player Personnel Gordie Clark was an Amerk in the mid 70's.
Just some of the Americans' better known alumni are Maxim Afinogenov, Gerry Cheevers,Tom Barrasso, David Booth, and former Rangers Matthew Barnaby, Arnie Brown, Jeff Brubaker, Bryan Hextall, Grant Ledyard.
So it certainly looks possible that the city of Hartford could be losing hockey again. Hartford Islanders, anyone?
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Kind of fitting/weird that the Rangers, who basically took New York away from the old Americans, would take over the AHL Americans. Sucks that games would move so far away but it isn’t like I ever went to Hartford either.
I have a blog too! www.scottyhockey.com
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Good point about the old NY Americans
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by Jim Schmiedeberg on May 22, 2010 10:15 PM EDT up reply actions
Morning Wake-up
Tomorrow morning at your parents basement window. Schmiedy , Schmiedy, Schmiedy, Schmeeeeeeeidy. Flyers 3 Canadiens 0. Ask your Shrink if you should make any more predictions.
I guess somewhere in there is supposed to be something funny, but I’m still trying to find it. I’m 39, there aint a last name joke you can make that I haven’t heard.
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by Jim Schmiedeberg on May 24, 2010 3:41 PM EDT up reply actions
Short Memory
Schmiedy, obviously Schmiedy is not intended to be funny. I didn’t think I had to spell it out for you but it’s just a way of showing disrespect toward a guy that took pride in jabbing my team. If you really did go back to school for your G.E.D I apologize & give you credit for completing the program. I was just questioning your judgement after your pre-playoff prediction. This whole thing got started because Tortorella was crying after Gabby got tuned up by Carcillo way back. I was surprized how all your fans & newspaper guys thought he shouldn’t fight? All our guys fight Briere , Richards , Lappy, no matter how small they are ( check Youtube ). Well, enjoy the Stanley Cup Finals and good luck scouting your future prospects.
I don’t get how a team can just switch it’s minor league team. What happens to the players on those minor league teams? Do they switch?
Yup, it happens all the time in sports. Rangers have had quite a few different AHL affiliates the last 25-30 years, Binghamton, Flint, I think one year their farm team was in Denver.
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by Jim Schmiedeberg on May 22, 2010 10:16 PM EDT up reply actions
New Haven too …
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by Scotty Hockey on May 28, 2010 4:32 PM EDT up reply actions
Why is it I always find myself at the center of Hartford hockey controversy? Move 1,400 miles away and somehow I’m still involved.
Thanks again for the story Donny, you can have the Isles though.
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by Jim Schmiedeberg on May 22, 2010 10:17 PM EDT up reply actions
I suppose that americans can still be described as howling. They’ll just need to clear that up.
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by Scratch and Snif on May 22, 2010 11:07 PM EDT up reply actions
Relocated to the new team. I think we have like 5 roster spots with the griffins too.
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by Scratch and Snif on May 22, 2010 11:07 PM EDT up reply actions
Prospects just move to the new city the affiliation is in.
Since this news has popped up I suppose I should make myself known on the Rangers section of SB Nation!
I raised these questions on my own site after reading the report…
The question I have would be that if the Rangers own the Wolf Pack, how can a team be unhappy with another team that they own? If anything they’re not unhappy with the Wolf Pack, they’re unhappy with Northland AEG, the company that operates the XL Center, the arena the Wolf Pack play in. Northland AEG is responsible for the day-to-day business operations of the Wolf Pack, including marketing, sponsorship and ticket sales. Madison Square Garden and the Rangers take care of on ice decisions including coaching and player movement.
MSG had run operations at the XL Center until the Connecticut Development Authority (CDA) selected Northland AEG in May 2007 to run the business side of the hockey team.
If the Rangers are not happy the way another company is handling the business side of the team, what’s to say they’d be interested in coming to Rochester where they still would not have control over such things? The Amerks front office is one of the biggest in the American Hockey League, would they accept the staff in place or be looking to clear house and run things their own way? What about being able to show games on MSG? Would they be able to kick the Sabres off the air or would they be ok with televising games on Time Warner?
Hi Keith, welcome! We could be getting to know you and your site very well before too long
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by Jim Schmiedeberg on May 23, 2010 12:52 AM EDT up reply actions
I have my people working on this story to see if it has anything behind it.. I am still baffled this came out and don’t really buy it as anything more than people saying what they want.
by keithwozniak on May 23, 2010 8:53 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE kick the Sabres off of MSG. I live in upstate NY and though i’m closer to NY than Buffalo when the Rangers and Sabres happen to play the same day (which happens alot) the Sabres get priorty over the Rangers! WTF! I hate the Sabres guts because of this and I can’t stand their announcer Rick Janneret. He makes me wanna puke!
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by 76 Blueshirt on May 23, 2010 1:24 PM EDT up reply actions
Very interesting. Now the Rangers own the Pack I believe, so it will be interesting to see how this plays out.
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by Nick Montemagno on May 22, 2010 11:58 PM EDT reply actions
if msg owns the wolfpack
then we could be looking at the franchise packing up and leaving hartford altogether.
Considering they’d like to keep it northeastern, that would leave us with:
Utica
Glens Falls
Binghamton(?) (i don’t know the terms of their deal)
Rochester, but that situation is cloudy.
God knows what’s going to happen.
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