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Chris Kreider Is Heating Up
After a somewhat alarmingly slow start, the speedy winger is putting pucks in the net.
New York Rangers Analysis
Dive deeper with New York Rangers analysis from the Blueshirt Banter team—where strategy meets stats, trades are teased out, and every roster move gets broken down. Whether it’s youth development, roster depth, or cap-maneuvering, we give you the insight Rangers fans need.
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Pavel Buchnevich Has Enjoyed Return to Rangers’ Top Line
Since re-joining the top line, Buchnevich has picked up where he left off.
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What Have We Learned? A Look at Games 13-15
For the first time this season, the New York Rangers won all three of their games this week. It’s still surprising it took them this long to accomplish that, considering how strong the team looked going into the 2017-18 season. Throughout October, the Rangers would only escape each
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Brendan Smith’s Disappointing Start to the Season Has Come Out of Nowhere
Once a lock on the second pair, Smith finds himself scratched for the third time this season. Why?
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Jeff Gorton Is Leaving Vigneault (And The Rangers) In No Man’s Land
Even the MSG producers were getting in on the action. As the New York Rangers rode the roller coaster that was their up-and-down win against the Las Vegas Golden nights — less than 48 hours after rumors surfaced that if the Rangers lost the coach would be handed his
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What More Does Pavel Buchnevich Have to Prove to Alain Vigneault?
Pavel Buchnevich is a player with elite star potential, and abilities much greater than you’d expect from a third-round draft choice. He showed that much on his first goal at Madison Square Garden last season. During his time in the KHL he put up respectable numbers similar to
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What Have We Learned? A Look at Games 10-12
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,
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The Rangers Have a Pivotal Decision to Make Up Front
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
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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.
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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,
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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