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We got an opportunity to speak to New York Rangers 21st overall selection Filip Chytil this past weekend about a variety of topics. The below is our interview. Everything in block quotes is from Chytil. For full disclosure: Chytil’s first language is not English, so I cleaned up some
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What type of expectations will the Rangers’ top pairing defender have to live up to?
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You think to yourself: It’s Thursday night and I have nothing to do. Or maybe you do have something to do, but you have a feeling deep down that you have something far more important to do. That thing is Bantering the Blueshirts, tonight at 8 p.m. As
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Akin to the Kevin Shattenkrik confusion before he signed with the New York Rangers, Jeff Gorton was silent as things seemed to be spiraling out of his control when it came to Mika Zibanejad and his contract negotiations. Information is murky as to how far along the arbitration process the
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The Rangers struck a sweet deal with their remaining RFA.
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It appears as though Mika Zibanejad and the New York Rangers are heading to arbitration, per Larry Brooks. Barring last minute settlement, Rangers and Zibanejad on way to arbitration hearing. — Larry Brooks (@NYP_Brooksie) July 25, 2017 The two sides aren’t all that far apart in terms of arbitration
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Like clockwork, players who file for arbitration go through what I like to call the “Three Stages of Fan Insanity.” Stage 1: Anger at the player for having the gall to utilize what little negotiating leverage an RFA has by filing for arbitration. Stage 2: Yelling about how the player
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Bantering The Blueshirts returns to the airwaves tonight at 8 p.m. Not that we haven’t been on the airwaves all summer, we’ve just slacked off these Banter reminders. But not more! No more ... You can listen to the show live here! Or you can archive on iTunes,
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If history is any indication, Glen Sather never really learned his lesson. For every moment of shrewd, savvy business (the Ryan Callahan trade for example), there were two or more moments of insanity (the Dan Girardi extension and the Marc Staal extension immediately come to mind). For the moment, we’
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Per a report from an Italian newspaper (La Regione), Brandon Pirri has elected to join Kevin Klein overseas in Switzerland. The 26-year-old became a free agent when the New York Rangers elected not to qualify him earlier this summer. Apparently there were no teams who wanted to take
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Ryan McDonagh is the dream. A top prospect who turned out to be anything and everything he was projected to be. A guy the New York Rangers got in perhaps the greatest trade of Glen Sather’s career. (That link is a beautiful time machine from Jim’s breaking news
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When the NHL season opens in October, Oscar Lindberg will be suiting up for just his third NHL season, and it will be his first as a member of the newly minted Vegas Golden Knights. Lindberg was drafted 57th overall in the 2010 draft by the Phoenix Coyotes, and joined