Bantering Points: 11/9/17
The Rangers extended their winning streak to five games by knocking off their rivals from the City of Champions. Here are today’s news and links:
Rangers News:
- Highlights: NYR 4, BOS 2 (4:15 video via NHL.com)
- Game Recap: Jimmy Vesey’s two goal effort and 31 saves from Henrik Lundqvist led the Rangers to their fifth win in a row (CBS)
- Larry Brooks highlights how Pavel Buchnevich has emerged as a gamebreaking player (NY Post)
- Brett Cyrgalis notes that Henrik Lundqvist is undefeated since changing to his current mask (NY Post)
- Shane Sander speculates if the Blueshirts would make sensible trading partners with the Edmonton Oilers (The Hockey Writers)
- Peter Reichert names five trade destinations for Rick Nash (Blue Line Station)
- Dan Carrozzi analyzes New York’s newly created high-powered power play (Blue Line Station)
- Frank Curto points to Rangers’ power play as the driving force behind their winning streak (Elite Sports NY)
- Dave Shapiro states that the team’s glaring hole in the wake of the Derek Stepan trade is growing larger and larger (Blue Seat Blogs)
- Anthony Scultore has regretfully announced that the end of an era has arrived (Forever Blueshirts)
- Media Availability: Henrik Lundqvist,(3:45) Alain Vigneault,(2:01) Marc Staal,(1:46) and Jimmy Vesey (1:30) (Official Team Site)/
Around the NHL:
- Franklin Steele argues that the Columbus Blue Jackets might be wise to trade Cam Atkinson (FanRag)
- Luke Fox sat down with Minnesota Wild goaltender Devin Dubnyk about Carey Price, Mitch Marner, and more (Sportsnet)
- Amalie Benjamin heard from defenseman Patrik Nemeth and Johnny Oduya as their teams head to Sweden to play two games to promote the NHL abroad (NHL.com)/