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The New York Rangers official website has opened the voting for the 2010-11 Steven McDonald Extra Effort Award presented by Lightspeed Trading. If you do not already know, the Extra Effort Award is an honor presented to a player that the fan base feels most went above and beyond the
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There might be 11 games left in the season, but for the New York Rangers the playoffs may as well start today. That's the importance level of every game the Rangers will take part in from here on out. Especially considering the Rangers are in such a dogfight
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The New York Rangers are in eighth place in the Eastern Conference at the moment, as the Buffalo Sabres defeated the Senators on Sunday to tie the Rangers in points. Being that Buffalo has a game at hand, they temporarily get the seventh place spot over the Blueshirts, but both
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Nice little bounce-back win in San Jose after losing to a very home-ice loving Anaheim club on Wednesday. The lineup for this week; Islanders, Canadiens, and then an NBC affair in Pittsburgh where no calls will go against the home team, ever. Off the cuff, anything less than two points
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Tim Thomas is going to win the Vezina trophy this year. There is no doubt about it, barring an epic collapse that would make the New York Mets blush. However, the other two finalist spots are still up for grabs, and as we close in on the final month of
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Yesterday marked the one year anniversary of the infamous Fire Sather Rally (of which we at the Banter covered, but did not organize). It was a rally organized by Mike Zippo, who as far as I know does not operate a blog, that got mainstream media attention, and major attention
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The New York Rangers have only fourteen games remaining in the regular season and currently are in seventh place in the Eastern Conference with 74 points. If you remember a week back we set the postseason cutoff in the East at about 90 points. Right now, considering how the teams
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It has become clear the New York Rangers are no longer slumping. This is much, much worse. The Rangers have transformed from a potential six seed who might surprise an unsuspecting three seed into a team that might not even make the cut to be a top-10 team in the
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February could not have ended sooner for the New York Rangers, as they begged, borrowed, and stole just enough goals (29) to get 9 out of a possible 24 points. As I pointed out last week, the Rangers saw a downturn in the amount of scoring chances they got for
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So Tuesday's loss to the Sabres was a tough one, no doubt about it. Every game this time of year is a big one, the funny part to me is they are worth exactly the same as the games in October; when no one is pulling a Jim
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"A lot of people were interested in our young guys but we really didn't want to trade any of our kids," said Glen Sather shortly after the NHL Trade Deadline passed. It is a telling and welcomed quote to the overwhelming majority of Rangers fans. Yes,
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In the 2008 Entry Draft the New York Rangers selected Derek Stepan in the second round with the fifty-first overall pick. Less than three years later, Stepan is nearing the close of an admirable performance as a rookie during the 2010-11 season. With no offense to Artem Anisimov, it has