Bantering Points: 11/4/16
For the third game in a row, the Rangers scored five goals and won on home ice, this time victimizing the Edmonton Oilers by the score of 5-3. The Rangers are in for a quick turn around though, as they'll only have one off day before shipping up to Boston for a match up with the Bruins. Here'
Rangers News:
- Highlights: NYR 5, EDM 3 (4:39 Video via NHL.com)
- Rick Nashtag does an apples-to-apples comparison of the Rangers' teams through ten games of each of the past two seasons both for 5v5 and special teams (Again I'm Right In My Analysis)
- Jake Weingarten recaps last night's victory over Edmonton (Elite Sports NY)
- Larry Brooks notes how Cam Talbot's tenure in New York helped him develop into the go-to guy for a young Oilers team (NY Post)
- Steve Zipay points out that while some may not even know Pavel Buchnevich's name, they'll learn soon enough (Newsday)
- Dave Shapiro examines how the Rangers improved special teams have helped supplement their dominant even strength play (Blue Seat Blogs)
- Brandon Cohen writes about the Rangers' ability to consistently have talented back-ups to Henrik Lundqvist, as well as a dearth of possible successors (Today's Slapshot)
- Postgame Notes: The Rangers are setting multiple early season franchise records, including goal differential and wins and points (Official Team Site)
- Post Game Interviews: Henrik Lundqvist, (1:28) Alain Vigneault, (4:33) J.T. Miller, and Kevin Hayes (1:35) (Official Team Site)/
Around the NHL
- Down Goes Brown discusses what happens to good teams stumble out of the gate (Sportsnet)
- Pierre LeBrun looks around the league, and sees teams with tough decisions to make in the offseason with regards to big name free agents, along with a few other bits (TSN)
- Ryan Lambert lists nine goalies off to tough starts, and ponders whether or not they'll be able to rebound (Puck Daddy)
- James O'Brien saw that Rick Nash wasn't the only Metro Division superstar who came up big last night, as Alex Ovechkin and Claude Giroux helped lead Washington and Philadelphia to wins (NBC Sports)
