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What Can Rangers Expect Out of Kevin Shattenkirk in 2017-18?
What type of expectations will the Rangers’ top pairing defender have to live up to?
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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Could A Matt Duchene Trade Make Sense?
Even though Matt Duchene was voted as the player “most likely to be traded this summer” by Bob McKenzie, it’s the end of July and he’s still with the Colorado Avalanche. There has been plenty of interest in the young center (as he is a very good player)
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Mika Zibanejad Contract: Jeff Gorton Gets It Right
Akin to the Kevin Shattenkrik confusion before he signed with the New York Rangers, Jeff Gorton was silent as things seemed to be spiraling out of his control when it came to Mika Zibanejad and his contract negotiations. Information is murky as to how far along the arbitration process the
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Light At The End Of The Tunnel For Mika Zibanejad And Jeff Gorton
Like clockwork, players who file for arbitration go through what I like to call the “Three Stages of Fan Insanity.” Stage 1: Anger at the player for having the gall to utilize what little negotiating leverage an RFA has by filing for arbitration. Stage 2: Yelling about how the player
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Rangers And Zibanejad Announce Arbitration Asks
Mika Zibanejad is scheduled for salary arbitration with the New York Rangers on July 25 – and time is fleeting for them to get a contract done before then. Elliotte Friedman reported their asking prices this morning – with Zibanejad has asking for $5.35 million and the team offering $4.1
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As of Now, Are the Rangers Contenders?
Every offseason, hockey media speculates about how teams will perform in the upcoming season. Most years, the New York Rangers are labeled as a team on the decline that could fall out of Stanley Cup contention. The Rangers have been mislabeled in the past, for example when their blue line
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Bridging Mika Zibanejad Would Be A Huge Mistake
If history is any indication, Glen Sather never really learned his lesson. For every moment of shrewd, savvy business (the Ryan Callahan trade for example), there were two or more moments of insanity (the Dan Girardi extension and the Marc Staal extension immediately come to mind). For the moment, we’
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Holden and Staal: A Recipe for Disaster
The pair that could undermine the Rangers’ revamped blue line.
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Rangers 2017 Report Card: Ugh, Tanner Glass
What is there to say about Tanner Glass in 2017? I could copy and paste my 2016 or 2015 Report Cards while changing a few names and dates around and everything would still ring true. I could throw numbers, percentages, and rates at you for 500+ words while sprinkling in
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Analyzing The Rangers’ Current Cap Situation
As things current stand, the New York Rangers have just over $5.5-million in cap space with a single internal free agent to be signed (Mika Zibanejad). That doesn’t include an expected acquisition of another center (potentially a third-line one), nor does it include the Rangers having eight fully
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Three reasons to love Shattenkirk’s contract
Kevin Shattenkirk is a New York Ranger and because of that the Rangers defense is already miles better than it was during the 2017 Playoffs. We’ll save concerns about Shattenkirk’s defensive play for another day and instead focus on what it took to bring him to Broadway. But
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What Is Fair Market Value For Mika Zibanejad's Next Contract?
Mika Zibanejad joined the New York Rangers organization on July 18, 2016, in a deal that sent Derick Brassard to the Ottawa Senators. The move was a bit of a shocker for fans because Brassard was one of the Rangers top players, and he was only two years removed from