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Twelve games into the season, the New York Rangers have accumulated eight points and a 3-7-2 record. After so many changes to this roster this offseason, which included subtracting two integral pieces of their core, this wasn’t the start the Rangers expected. But once the season started, it became
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To say the New York Rangers have had a rough start to the season would be an understatement. Currently, the Rangers sit at 3-6-2 through eleven games this season and at times have looked absolutely hopeless. The fans are beginning to get more and more frustrated in the team’s
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The beginning of a series that will run on Blueshirt Banter this season. Spoiler: It involves some math.
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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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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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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