2017 Report Cards
Who? Sigh. Where did it all go wrong? Coming out of preseason, Clendening was poised to be a major possession-driving defenseman. He played well while Dan Girardi nursed an injury and Nick Holden struggled (a nice way of saying "got deked out of his socks") ... but then
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Every offseason, hockey media speculates about how teams will perform in the upcoming season. Most years, the New York Rangers are labeled as a team on the decline that could fall out of Stanley Cup contention. The Rangers have been mislabeled in the past, for example when their blue line
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Well, it’s been summer for over a month now and I finally found some time to slap together my annual Summer Survival Guide. Normally I try do this just after the Rangers get eliminated from the Stanley Cup Playoffs. But I’ve been a busy boy this summer, so
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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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In the past, I have done midseason prospect rankings to check in on how everyone has progressed since my summer evaluations. I did not do that this past winter. This was partly because of other things going on in my life. A major contributing factor, though, was the fact that
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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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Yesterday capfriendly.com listed that Daniel Catenacci had agreed to a one-year, $650,000 deal with the Rangers. The contract guarantees him a salary of $100,000 in the minors. Mika Zibanejad is now the only restricted free agents that the Rangers have to sign. Last season the Rangers
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The pair that could undermine the Rangers’ revamped blue line.
2017 Report Cards
I’ve always been transparent about how I feel about Derek Stepan - which is to say that I’ve always had a hard time evaluating him. This has been the case back when he had a full head of hair as a rookie in 2010-2011. And it was true
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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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The New York Rangers have signed goaltending prospect Alexander Georgiev to an entry-level contract, according to Cap Friendly. Georgiev, 21, attended Rangers’ summer prospect camp a few weeks back. Georgiev has been a teammate of Rangers prospects Tarmo Reunanen (2016 fourth-round pick) and Patrik Virta (2017 seventh-round
2017 Report Cards
This might be uncomfortable for some of us, or tear-inducing for others, but one way or another it has to happen – it’s time to assess Dan Girardi’s performance during the 2016-17 season as a New York Ranger. You, like many of us, may already have your