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It hasn’t even been a week since the Rangers opened the 2017-18 season, but the Filip Chytil on Broadway experiment appears to be over. After emerging from training camp as the team’s second line center, Chytil averaged less than six and a half minutes of ice time in
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This article was ideally supposed to be up before the season started, but it took a bit longer than I hoped. If you haven’t seen the first piece of this series, focusing on Rangers power play, you can find it here. In this article I’ll be taking an
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The New York Rangers have played the first three of their 82 games so far, earning two points, scoring 9 goals, and allowing 12 goals against. First, the Rangers fell 4-2 to the Colorado Avalanche in their season opener. Next, they dropped their first away game of the season in
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The Rangers new young defenseman has a few things to prove on and off the ice.
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If you’re scoring this one at home, the New York Rangers are entering this season much like they have every summer since their 2014 Stanley Cup run: With the expectation to be a contending hockey team. There is one critical difference, however. This year they actually might be. Oh
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This summer was the first true summer of change in New York since Alain Vigneault took over. That’s not a shot at the bench boss, either; it’s just the beginning of the current era, is all. Oh sure, Glen Sather stepped down and Jeff Gorton came in. Yes,
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It’s inevitable this time of year to worry about the players who aren’t going to make the team out of camp. With every team making these decisions, the waiver wire is something of a battlefield where teams are trying to smuggle some of their better players who just
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For the final game of the preseason I always handle these reviews a little differently. I try to make out where I think players stand in terms of making the team itself. Enjoy. The (Deserved) Locks Henrik Lundqvist, Ondrej Pavelec, Rick Nash, Mika Zibanejad, Mats Zuccarello, Michael Grabner, Kevin Hayes,
New York Rangers Analysis
Throughout the playoffs last year, I collected a lot of my own data on team’s power plays and penalty kills. And while I’ve written about more general topics using the data (like here and here), before the season starts I want to take a detailed look at how
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The New York Rangers have the potential to take strides forward this season, after some much-needed offseason retooling by general manager Jeff Gorton in their rebuild on the fly. Most of their potential, however, is contingent on one key element: the coaching. Coaching can be crucial to any team’s
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You’d think a team that finished 25th overall last year would put a priority on keeping its young players, but I think we’ve all given up on trying to understand what the Red Wings are doing these days. Darren Dreger reported just a few days ago that Andreas
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Brady Skjei’s strong rookie season inspired confidence in the New York Rangers’ defensive future. Although limited to a third-pair role, the 23-year-old defenseman made his presence known throughout the regular season and the postseason. The former first-round pick of the Rangers is in the final year of his three-year,