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The Rangers have come to terms with Ruslan Fedotenko, who came to camp on a professional tryout. Fedotenko impressed management, coaching, teammates, and fans with his camp and preseason play. Fedotenko led the Rangers in scoring (1 G, 6 A) in his five preseason games, finishing with a +5 rating.
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Ryan McDonagh and Pavel Valentenko have been sent to Hartford, meaning Mike Sauer and Steve Eminger have made the team. Eminger and Sauer would have to clear waivers to be sent to the Whalepack, McDonagh and Valentenko would not. Not happy about McDonagh, but I understand the business aspect of
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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
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As per Larry Brooks, defenseman Wade Redden will be placed on waivers today at noon. It looks like the Rangers have found his replacement in either Ryan McDonagh, Michael Sauer, Garnet Exelby, or Alexei Semenov. Redden was given an ultimatum at the end of last season, saying show up ready
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As per Andrew Gross, the Rangers have made their first cuts of this fresh pre-season. From Andrew's full story: Today's cuts: To Hartford G: Jordan Parise, Cameron Talbot D: Lee Baldwin, Sam Klassen, Tomas Kundratek, Jyri Niemi, Blake Parlett, Nigel Williams F: Chris Chappell, Devin
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The New York Rangers are already five days deep into training camp, preparing for their October 9th season start against the Buffalo Sabres. Yesterday we were notified that captain Chris Drury had broken his finger when blocking a shot in a scrimmage. Today, as he prepared to see a specialist,
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We've all been reading the quotes from John Tortorella, and we talked at length about the video interview he did with MSG the other night, and I'm wondering if perhaps the coach has maybe given himself a bit of an attitude adjustment. First came his admission
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Props to Dave Shapiro for posting this, see his thoughts below: As per Jesse Spector, Chris Drury broke his finger blocking a shot in this afternoon’s scrimmage. He will miss four weeks, and surgery will not be required. Drury will not miss many regular season games, but he will
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The New York Rangers now have two days of training camp under their belts and are only four days away from the start of the preseason. In day two, the team once again split into four separate groups and continued with their skating and conditioning drills. This included cross-ice
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Day one of New York Rangers training camp has come to a close with four separate groups of players taking the ice for head coach John Tortorella's conditioning skate/test. It was certainly an action packed first day with numerous storylines and plenty to discuss. Thanks to Andrew
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Apparently Bob McKenzie from TSN is Tweeting that Marc Staal and the Rangers have come to terms on a 5 yr, $3.975M deal, meaning Staal will be there for the start of training camp. As joereiter said in his Fan Post, "Everyone can breathe easy" I would
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Interesting tidbit from Andrew Gross on today's informal scrimmage regarding Michael Del Zotto: Del Zotto was wearing a full, clear, plastic visor as a precaution after having nose surgery last week to correct a cartilage problem. In January, Del Zotto recalls lining a player up for a hit