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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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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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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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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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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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AV needs to set his defense pairings and let them grow together.
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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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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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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
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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