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Rangers vs. Golden Knights: Open Game Thread

Tonight the New York Rangers go up against the scorching hot Vegas Golden Knights, who are coming off a six-game winning streak. Now tied for first in their division, the Knights have collected 18 wins in their last 25 games. Alex Tuch will be looking to extend his point streak

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Bantering Points: 1/7/19

Here are today’s news and links: Rangers News: * Highlights: ARI 5, NYR 0 (4:09 video via NHL.com) * Game Recap: Another game, another blowout loss as the Rangers “improved” their goal differential to +3/-18 over their last three contests (CBS) * Larry Brooks writes that Kevin Hayes’ injury

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Rangers vs Coyotes: Rangers Continue to Fall with 5-0 Loss to Arizona

Following an embarrassing loss to the Colorado Avalanche, the New York Rangers continued the trend and gave up five goals yet again in a loss to the Arizona Coyotes. These last three games by the Rangers have been absolutely miserable, and this may be their worst stretch of hockey in

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Rangers vs. Coyotes: Open Game Thread

This afternoon, the Blueshirts stop by the desert to visit their old friend Derek Stepan and his squad. The Coyotes are 17-21-3 to the Rangers’ 17-16-7, and the Rangers have earned at least one point in 13 of their last 14 games against the Coyotes, and 3 or more goals

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What’s The Point?: How Hard The Rangers Would Have to Tank to Reach the Bottom

The New York Rangers are in a weird spot right now as we reach just about the half-way point of the NHL regular season. The Blueshirts are firmly out of the playoff picture - the Islanders are a nice 5 points ahead of us for the outside-looking-in (they have 46

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Brett Howden has hit a wall, and that’s okay

Howden has played 22 games without scoring a goal

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Bantering Points: 1/6/19

Here are today’s news and links: Around the NHL: * Larry Brooks believes the Rangers need to settle on an asking price for Kevin Hayes (NY Post) * Colin Stephenson reports that the team had skated for a previously unscheduled practice in the wake of their 6-1 drubbing in Colorado (Newsday)

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2019 WJC Gold and Bronze Medal Games Open Thread

The 2019 World Junior Championship concludes today with Team USA and Team Finland competing for the gold medal. First, Team Russia, who fell to Team USA yesterday by a score of 2-1, will battle Team Switzerland, who lost to Team Finland 6-1, at 4:00 p.m. ET. Vitali Kravtsov,

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Bantering Points: 1/5/19

Here are today’s news and links: Rangers News: * Highlights: COL 6, NYR 1 (5:05 video via NHL.com) * Game Recap: Playing the Rangers is the solution to any and every losing streak, as the Avalanche buried New York for 60:00 en route to a 6-1 victory (CBS)

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My New York Rangers Fandom: Baking and Dying

Well, that was terrible. (NOTE: I wrote that sentence after the loss to the Penguins, but what do you know, it works for the Avs game, too!) I’ve been writing this piece for the last two weeks. I just couldn’t finish it, because the Rangers kept upending any

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Rangers vs. Avalanche

It can’t be worse than last time, can it? I mean, it’s COLORADO. The headline on the Avalanche’s SB Nation site is literally “Alright, It’s Time to End This Losing Streak.” Alexandar Georgiev is in; Jimmy Vesey, Brendan Smith, and Tony DeAngelo are out. Marc Staal

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Rangers place Vince Pedrie on unconditional waivers

The Rangers are parting ways with former undrafted college free agent