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.
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I love Jesper Fast. He’s versatile, can be plugged in anywhere, does everything you want in his own zone, and plays a valuable game on both ends of the ice. As much as I love Jesper Fast, you know something is wrong when he’s the team’s leading
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This is the first edition of power rankings in which we have results from regular season games. The Blueshirts have played five games and sit 1-4-0 with two points. During this stretch there were a few close games decided late, and there was the debacle that was the game vs.
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The story ends, ironically enough, with Alain Vigneault finally walking down a road of self reflection. The predictable part was that he wasn’t asked about it. We won’t start there, though, because that’s how this story ends. Or maybe more appropriately, how the current story begins. When
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It’s been just three games but Jimmy Vesey has found himself at the center of a fair amount of discussion so far. Before the regular season opener on 10/4, I discussed how Vesey’s struggles really couldn’t keep him out of a top-six role because of the
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Namestnikov’s 2018-19 season is off to a rocky start
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Staal’s play has been on decline, and his preseason struggles have continued into the 2018-19 regular season.
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Smith earned the clean slate that the Rangers gave him before training camp
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This is a weekly series that will run during the 2018-19 season.
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The Jimmy Vesey Situation According to the projected opening night lineup tonight, Vesey will be “rewarded” from what was a relatively dreadful preseason with a firm spot on the second line. At first blush it seems like a massive oversight, and further proof the narrative of “David Quinn is going
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With the return of the New York Rangers comes the return of MSG Networks’ comprehensive coverage of the team. Per its press release, the network will be covering 71 of the team’s 82 regular season games, with the “Montefiore Medical Center Rangers Game Night” serving as pre-game analysis, the
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David Quinn, Jeff Gorton and Glen Sather spoke on a variety of topics at a season ticket holder event on Monday.
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The Rangers made the stunning move to demote Lias Andersson to the Hartford Wolf Pack, giving an NHL spot to, among others, Brett Howden. The discourse surrounding Andersson had already been noxious, and this decision by the Rangers is tinder added to an already lively fire. People who were already