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Following a sports team isn't always fun. You invest years of your life keeping up with free agent signings, analyzing and over-analyzing trades, studying contracts and cap space, reading up information on them, watching every game, and telling yourself day in and day out "My God this is our year...
Down On The Farm 4.27.09
What better to help you through your Monday than our second Prospect Update! I know that currently Ranger Nation is in a bit of a panic but let's forget the present and look to the future: Starting in the OHL, Brampton won the Eastern conference and will move onto the OHL Finals against the...
Recap - Capitals 5, Rangers 3
[AP Recap - Game Summary - Event Summary - WashingtonCaps.com Postgame] With an offensive core as explosive as the one the Capitals have it's not all that often the team is going to be carried by its blueliners, especially in the offensive end. But that's what happened yesterday afternoon as Tom...
JOHN TORTORELLA SUSPENDED
NEW YORK -- The National Hockey League announced Saturday that New York Rangers coach John Tortorella has been suspended for one game for squirting a fan with water and throwing a water bottle that struck a fan during Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Quarterfinal Series with the Washington Capitals...
Henrik Lundqvist's Rebound Control
As great as Simeon Varlamov have been for the Washington Capitals in the team's series against the Rangers, his counterpart, Henrik Lundqvist, has been the real key to the series. Twice in five games the Capitals have been able to put enough pressure on the 27-year-old Swede that he's wound up...
End This Tonight!
Yesterday Alexander Ovechkin sent out a message to Washington Capitals fans: "This series isn't over, were still in this thing." Or something to that effect; let's be honest his hockey skill is incredible but his English is as sturdy as Rick Dipietro's left hip. Yes, the Rangers have a...
Missing Persons Report
After last night's 2-1 win over the Washington Capitals-a win which has now pushed the Capitals to the brink of losing in the first round-all was well in Ranger nation. Or was it? Last night at around 2:30 A.M I received a call from an anonymous source who leaked that The Rangers have filed a...
Rangers need to send Avery to the bench
In the course of every postseason run, in every sport, a coach is faced with making a drastic decision, a decision that can alter the fate of his team. In the 2006 playoffs, after seeing his starting goaltender Martin Gerber give up 6 goals in each of the first two games of the opening round...
Psychology
Conventional wisdom suggested that Washington Capitals coach Bruce Boudreau was foolish to start Simeon Varlamov in Game 2 of the Capitals' first-round series with the New York Rangers. After the rookie, playing his 8th NHL game, pitched a 33-save shutout, perhaps that bit of nonsense can...
Rangers Recap: Capitals 4 Rangers 0, Rangers lead series 2-1
The warriors sat in their respective locker room listening to the platoons of fans cheering the Rangers on from the battle field. The pieces were all set in place. The Rangers were up 2-0 in the series, they had defeated the opposition twice away from home, and now they were coming home to fight...
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