New York Rangers News
In a surprising move, recently waived Wade Redden will report to Hartford instead of playing in Europe. Here is the tweet from Larry Brooks: NYP_Brooksie NEWS: Agent Don Meehan texts that Redden will report to AHL Hartford on Wednesday. There were conflicting reports that lead to the belief that
New York Rangers Prospects
As many of you guys know, we here at Blueshirt Banter love our prospects. So in order to help bring you guys some better prospect coverage throughout the year I reached out to Russ Cohen to help give us some inside looks on the Rangers top prospects. For those of
New York Rangers Game Recaps
The New York Rangers--who were playing their third pre-season game in four nights--were defeated by the Detroit Red Wings 5-3 today at Joe Louis Arena. The Rangers, who had roughly 17 hours of rest between the end of last night's game against the New Jersey Devils and today&
New York Rangers News
As per Andrew Gross, the Rangers have made their first cuts of this fresh pre-season. From Andrew's full story: Today's cuts: To Hartford G: Jordan Parise, Cameron Talbot D: Lee Baldwin, Sam Klassen, Tomas Kundratek, Jyri Niemi, Blake Parlett, Nigel Williams F: Chris Chappell, Devin DiDiomete,
New York Rangers Analysis
Hockey is back. Wow, it feels good saying that. The pre-season is a very interesting time in the NHL, especially for teams that have a particularly good crop of young talent. The New York Rangers, thankfully, are a team with a bunch of young budding talent just waiting to find
New York Rangers Analysis
When it comes to the New York Rangers current complexion, their home grown talent (aside from Henrik Lundqvist) usually focuses on two players: Ryan Callahan and Brandon Dubinsky. Both were drafted by the Rangers, nurtured from the juniors all the way to the NHL by the Rangers and finally brought
New York Rangers Analysis
Continuing with our off-season X factors coverage, today we will take a look at Artem Anisimov. Anisimov, who was the New York Rangers 2nd round selection (54th overall) in the 2006 NHL entry draft, spent all of last season with the big club after spending his first two professional seasons
New York Rangers Analysis
Today we will continue with out next edition of "X Factors For 2010." We have already covered Sean Aver and his aggressive role on the team and we have also looked into Martin Biron's role as a backup goaltender. Today we look at Michael Del Zotto.
Bantering Around
SB Nation is continuing their "summer fill" segment, which involves two SB Nation blogs interviewing each other about their respective teams. Hayley, the managing editor for SB Nation's Calgary Flames blog, Matchsticks And Gasoline, was nice enough to answer some questions for Blueshirt Banter. So go
New York Rangers Analysis
Continuing our "X factor" segment on Blueshirt Banter we go from the biggest X factor (popularity wise) in Sean Avery to the most important in Martin Biron. Since the post-lockout era the New York Ranger have been missing one of the most vital cogs to a successful team:
New York Rangers Analysis
Editor note: "X Factors" is a new series that I will be starting on Blueshirt Banter that will run until training camp starts. Basically, I am going to be looking and examining some of the biggest X factors for the New York Rangers this upcoming season. We will
New York Rangers Analysis
So he's back. Ilya Kovalchk is once again the man of the hour (week? Month? Year?), and on the free agent list again. His 17-year $102 million contract was reject by the NHL, and that decision was upheld by Richard Bolch in the arbitration hearing. So one again