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“The Rangers are ready to re-stock. Now comes the next question: How far will they go? My sense is they are honest about who they are. They’re not interested in the “dreaded middle.” So wrote Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman the morning of November 1st. The Rangers had just four
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No, not the Kristen Stewart Twilight.
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The Rangers slipped during this sequence of games, and there is even more of a reason to be concerned about the state of the team.
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Just a little while ago, we looked at how the Rangers were entering the zone on the power play this year and compared it to how they did last season during the playoffs. Now in part 2, I’ll be taking a look at what the Rangers have been doing
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Six games later and the New York Rangers have officially passed the midpoint of the season and now are on a much needed bye week. We last left off with a loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs on December 23rd. Since then, the Rangers have matched up against the Washington
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The claim is not a new one, even if we don’t hear it very often. When things aren’t going well for the Rangers and questions about advanced statistics make their way back to Alain Vigneault, he reminds everyone of it: he has his own internal metrics (sophisticated stats)
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Mats Zuccarello leads the New York Rangers in scoring with 31 points through 40 games, and it’s not the first time in his career he’s been a pacesetter. In fact, in three of the four seasons that he has been a mainstay on this roster, Zuccarello led the
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The Rangers are 6-3-2 in December, but that has more to do with Lundqvist and good luck than solid team play.
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Three games and only two points added to the win column. It happens, right? Hockey is random, the better team doesn’t always earn the two points they deserve. There’s still time though – we’re not even at the midpoint of the season. Except the Rangers didn’t deserve
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In any game, a team may perform better, but not get the end result they deserve – a win. On the other hand, a team may collect two points despite not deserving them based on their 60 minutes (or more) of play. It happens. Hockey is filled with so many random
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The Rangers won the same amount of games between Games 21 and 30 that they did between Games 11 and 20. Despite that fact, there’s reason to be concerned about the state of the team.
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There was some good news on Tuesday out of Rangerstown: Mika Zibanejad skated for the first time since being diagnosed with a concussion from a hit he took against the Detroit Red Wings. The speedy young center had begun to make quite a name for himself this season, leading one