Bantering Points
Bantering Points: 9/18/17
News and notes for Monday, September 18th, 2017
Jack McKenna
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Bantering Points: 9/17/17
News and notes for Sunday, September 17th, 2017
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Bantering Points: 9/16/17
News and notes for Saturday, September 16th, 2017
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Bantering Points: 9/15/17
News and notes for Friday, September 15th, 2017
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30 Days of Lundqvist: A Stick Tap From Savard
By virtue of consistently being one of the best goalies in the NHL since entering the league in 2005, Henrik Lundqvist is no stranger to making highlight reel saves. The save against Thomas Vanek during the 2014 playoffs that arguably saved New York’s season is one that comes to
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Thoughts on Thursday: Regression, Competition, and Traverse City
1. Every season, certain players manage to exceed expectations and head into the following season looking to repeat their performance. Unfortunately, most of those players fail to reach their heightened goals, and the result tends to be some combination of an angry fan base as well as disappointed decision makers
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Setting Expectations for the Rangers’ Sophomores
Last season, the Rangers experienced a youth movement unlike any other they’ve gone through since emerging from the lockout more than a decade ago. With Pavel Buchnevich, Brady Skjei, and Jimmy Vesey all primed to play major roles heading into the season, plenty of question marks surrounded the team
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Thoughts on Thursday: Enforcers, College Free Agents, and the Trading Deadline
1. When the Rangers let the free agent frenzy come and go without resigning Tanner Glass or bringing in another “enforcer” to replace him, it seemed to signal the end of an era on Broadway. From the days of pure fighters like Tie Domi, Darren Langdon, Sandy McCarthy, and Colton
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Report: Rangers Invite Bobby Farnham to Training Camp
On Sunday, I speculated that Jeff Gorton would extend a professional tryout to at least one player before training camp, and made three suggestions on who would help the Rangers next season. According to Larry Brooks, the Ranges have invited a player of a different skill set to training camp:
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Who Could the Rangers Extend a Professional Tryout to?
Last week, I took a trip down memory lane and looked back on some of New York’s more recent professional tryouts. While the team’s attempts at bringing in veterans during training camp and having the player earn a contract haven’t worked out it shouldn’t dissuade Jeff
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Thoughts on Thursday: System Fits, Line Combinations and David Pastrnak
1. After winning back-to-back Stanley Cups on the back of speedy, energetic depth players, the Pittsburgh Penguins have set the model that rebuilding teams will look to emulate for years to come. The ebbs and flows of the NHL have lead to different methods of “optimal” roster construction based on
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Reminiscing on the Rangers’ Training Camp Tryouts
When the month of August arrives and news in the hockey world slows down to a crawl, the only interesting bits of info that tend to emerge are teams agreeing to professional tryouts. As of today, only the Dallas Stars (R.J. Umberger) and Los Angeles Kings (Andrei Loktionov and