New York Rangers Game Threads
Fifth game of the preseason for the Rangers, who are coming off their most complete game so far. Here is the game thread for tonight: Henrik Lundqvist is expected to play the entire game. Lineups: Alexander Frolov - Vinny Prospal - Marian Gaborik Brandon Dubinsky - Artem Anisimov - Ryan Callahan Sean Avery - Derek
New York Rangers Analysis
The Rangers' roster battles are nearing their conclusion, with four games in the books, and game 5 coming up tomorrow night against the Ottawa Senators. Normally, when I want to look at comparisons between players, I have the wealth of knowledge that comes from perusing the numbers compiled by
New York Rangers Game Recaps
The Rangers improved to 3-1-0 in the preseason with tonight's 5-1 victory over the Detroit Red Wings at Madison Square Garden. Even though the Wings did not have some of their big guns in the lineup, this should still be looked at as a very
New York Rangers Analysis
Assuming Marc Staal, Dan Girardi, Michael Del Zotto, and Michal Rozsival all have spots on the team, there are three slots currently open on the Rangers' blue-line if head coach John Tortorella chooses to carry along a seventh defenseman. Three slots open, but five players still remaining in
New York Rangers Analysis
As promised, here is Part II of my projections for each Ranger this season. This part will take a look at the other forwards not listed in Part I, and may end up including some forwards who do not play with the Rangers for a full season. Nonetheless, I cannot
New York Rangers Game Threads
Game four of the preseason, second half of the home and home with the Red Wings. Lineups for tonight: (Courtesy of Ranger Rants) Forwards: Alex Frolov - Erik Christensen - Marian Gaborik Tim Kennedy - Artem Anisimov - Ryan Callahan Sean Avery - Derek Stepan - Ruslan Fedotenko Derek Boogaard - Todd White - Brandon Prust Defense: Matt
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On Saturday we did a live remote front of the Prudential Center and gave away a bunch of fantastic prizes to Ranger fans in attendance including this Marc Staal jersey to Kristen, a rabid listener of the show as well as autographed pucks and other Ranger swag to other diehard
New York Rangers Analysis
With the pre-season schedule in full swing allowing to roster to slowly take shape, I figured I could unveil my pre-season project; points predictions for each Ranger. I discovered point projection techniques about two years ago via the always amazing behindthenet.com (a must-read SB Nation side
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