Dive deeper with New York Rangers analysis from the Blueshirt Banter team—where strategy meets stats, trades are teased out, and every roster move gets broken down. Whether it’s youth development, roster depth, or cap-maneuvering, we give you the insight Rangers fans need.
New York Rangers Analysis
Let’s continue our reviews of the 2009-2010 New York Rangers with defenseman Michael Del Zotto. Michael Del Zotto: What we liked: There was a ton we liked about Del Zotto this year. For starters he stepped into a major role—quarterbacking the power play—with relative success. His 9
New York Rangers Analysis
First, big s/t to RangerSmurf, who has been helping me understand a myraid of new metrics in evaluating not only NHL players, but prospects as well. The guys at Behind the Net, who are pretty much the metrics kings of hockey, have deduced a formula to help understand what
New York Rangers Analysis
This past Tuesday marked GM Glen Sather's ten-year anniversary of being the president and general manager of the New York Rangers. We have established here on the blog that he is not going anywhere between now and the next season despite false rumors and fan rallies outside Madison
New York Rangers Analysis
According to Bruce Garrioch, the Rangers are one of the teams showing interest in soon to be unrestricted free agent Anton Volchenkov. Volchenkov has been a hot topic so far this offseason, after turning down a reported five-year $20 million deal after the Olympics from the Senators, ensuring that the
New York Rangers Analysis
With the Rangers seemingly out of the playoffs, thoughts are turning to the future, and how to make the Rangers a better team for both next season and beyond. Unfortunately, the Rangers are in a very bad spot with the salary cap, due in large part to the contract given
New York Rangers Analysis
With the Rangers in dire salary cap straits, the need to alleviate pressure on the cap grows everyday. The biggest cry amongst fans has been to buyout Wade Redden, who's $6.5 million cap hit for the next four seasons is, to put it mildly, atrocious. The thought
New York Rangers Analysis
Sorry to have been so distant guys, but graduating from college and all took up a ton of time. Consider this my rising from the dead. Welcome me back! Anyway let’s get on to the easiest player review of them all: Henrik Lundqvist. Henrik Lundqvist: What We Liked: Uh,
New York Rangers Analysis
As the 2002 trade deadline approached, the Rangers were on the outside of the playoff picture, and desperate to find a way to get themselves to the post season. This Rangers team was deeply flawed, and outside of the FLY Line (Theo Fleury, Eric Lindros, Mike York) and Brian Leetch,
New York Rangers Analysis
This past week, Scott Cullen of TSN wrote up a lengthy and in-depth gameplan for the New York Rangers in the upcoming offseason. He discusses who should stay and who should go, what the team's biggest needs are, and who the Blueshirts should look to acquire in this
New York Rangers Analysis
One of my favorite NHL blogs is Hockey or Die, which is manned by Jonathan Willis, who also covers the Western Canadian NHL teams along with a helping hand at Copper & Blue (the Oilers SB Nation site). Willis tackles a lot of the current hot-topic issues with a fair
New York Rangers Analysis
This is not the first Nikolai Zherdev rumor we have heard since the beginning of the offseason for the New York Rangers. In fact, just a month ago I posted an article revealing that general manager Glen Sather and Team Russia assistant coach Andrei Nazarov had met up in New
New York Rangers Analysis
Brian Boyle became a Ranger late last June in exchange for a 2010 3rd rounder in order to replace former 4th line staple Blair Betts. When he first came here, we heard Brian was big, used to be able to score, and didn't fight or hit despite being