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We have our sneak peak at what tomorrow’s lineup for Game 1 against the Montreal Canadiens looks like. As expected Pavel Buchnevich is out of the picture and Tanner Glass is on the fourth line. NYR lines: 20-21-36; 26-93-61; 40-13-10; 15-24-19 D: 27-5, 18-22, 76-42 — Steve Zipay (@stevezipay) April
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In a lot of ways this felt like Steven McDonald’s final Extra Effort award. Not that his memory won’t live on, not that his son Conor and wife Patti Ann won’t do a wonderful job with the award moving forward. I think you saw last night that’
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A few days back we took a look at Montreal’s bottom six forward group. Today we’re going to turn our focus to the Canadiens top six forwards. It’s time to continue our preview of the Rangers first round match-up against Montreal. The Habs are not a team
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As the playoffs draw closer Alain Vigneault is going to have to sort out his ideal lineup. In all likelihood, this lineup will more than likely contain Tanner Glass to be a physical deterrent to Montreal. Thursday, Larry Brooks penned an article about how Glass is a right now piece
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There’s just no escaping it. Montreal’s size advantage, particularly in its bottom six forward group, will be one of the big storylines of the Rangers and Canadiens first round playoff series. At the trade deadline Habs general manager Marc Bergevin went out of his way to add some
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With Montreal’s win over Florida Monday night the New York Rangers finally have their playoff matchup set in stone. The Rangers will be the visiting team in the first round against the Canadiens. This was looked at as something of a dream matchup back in January, although now I’
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It took an overtime loss for it to finally happen, but the New York Rangers will be playing in the 2017 Stanley Cup Playoffs. New York’s impressive start to the season has helped the team clinch a playoff berth and avoid the desperate battle taking place between four teams
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At practice Monday the New York Rangers announced both Dan Girardi and Kevin Klein were medically cleared to return to the ice. AV says both Klein and Girardi have been cleared medically, and it's just a matter of them getting "up to speed" to rejoin the
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When the season began there was such a logjam at forward you would have been forgiven if you forgot about Oscar Lindberg. Brandon Pirri was scoring goals (plural) a game in the preseason, Jimmy Vesey was beginning his early-season success and Pavel Buchnevich was doing Buchnevich things. Oh, Lindberg was
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While the lineup isn’t official yet we can take a pretty good guess as to what’s going to happen. Pavel Buchnevich skated as an extra yesterday in practice and Dan Girardi seems to be geared to be back in the lineup. When asked about Buchnevich, the response was
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Kevin Hayes and J.T. Miller are two very talented young players who look to be cornerstones for the Rangers both now and in the future. Both are putting up career high point totals (Miller has hit the 50 point plateau while Hayes is just 4 points shy of the
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What has gone wrong with the Rangers power play?