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New York Rangers Game Score Report: A Recap of Games 1 through 10
The beginning of a series that will run on Blueshirt Banter this season. Spoiler: It involves some math.
New York Rangers Analysis
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Demotion of DeAngelo Exemplifies Rangers’ Bewildering Asset Management
Tony DeAngelo has played eight of the ten games thus far in the 2017-18 season in a New York Rangers’ sweater; he’s been a healthy scratch twice and relegated to the role of the seventh defensemen three times. And yesterday, he was sent down to their AHL affiliate, the
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Pavel Buchnevich Vs. Jimmy Vesey: A Battle That Doesn’t Need To Happen
Time may be linear, or it may be a flat circle. In the world of the New York Rangers, sometimes it seems like it can be both at the same time. It feel like just yesterday we were arguing between Ryan Callahan and Brandon Dubinsky. Now we’re doing the
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Rangers’ Incoherence Starts at the Top
The New York Rangers are now 2-6-2, having lost 6 of their 8 home games so far, with the possibility of losing 8 of 10 total home games within the month of October looming. These are dire times for the Rangers, as these mounting losses mean that a playoff spot
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What Have We Learned? A Look at Games 7-9
Another week later and the New York Rangers have made some progress, but it’s still not enough. At this point last week, they were second-to-last in the league standings. Right now, they’re in fifth-to-last place as this week’s 1-0-2 record helped them earn four more points. While
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The Emperor Has No Clothes
As Yankees’ legend Yogi Berra once said, “It’s getting late early out there.” Since the NHL changed its playoff format for the 2013-2014 season, the team to clinch the final wild card spot in the Eastern Conference has averaged 95.5 points. The Rangers currently have four points through
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Has Alain Vigneault’s Message Gone Stale?
At some point you have to reasonably ask the question. I’m not talking about the “has he lost the room” nonsense that follows all coaches, of every major sport, around when teams struggle. I’m talking about an honest, logical variation of that question. Has Alain Vigneault’s message
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Winning at home
It’s time for this team to get going and there’s no better place to do it than the Garden.
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Alain Vigneault Needs to Give Rangers Defense Time To Jell
AV needs to set his defense pairings and let them grow together.
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What Have We Learned? A Look at Games 4-6
The New York Rangers haven’t had the best start to the 2017-18 season. Unfortunately, since their first three games, they’ve followed up with three straight losses. It’s still early in the season, so it’s not quite time to panic, but that 1-5 record and second-to-last standing
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Alain Vigneault’s Decision Making Is Now Jeff Gorton’s Problem
As familiar as they might be, these crazy, unhinged lineup decisions by Alain Vigneault throughout his tenure in New York still don’t make any sense. The latest came on Tuesday, as the newly extended Brendan Smith was scratched for a second straight game for “he can be better” reasons.
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Shutdown Center The Root Cause of Many Problems for Rangers
The Rangers’ 1-3-0 start isn’t particularly bothersome; every team is going to have multiple streaks like that this season, and that record looks very different if Semyon Varlamov and Carter Hutton have ordinary performances. However, out of the gate there are some areas of struggle. The Rangers really only