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Editor’s Note: This is going to be a running series taking a look at the players the Rangers might lose to expansion and the issues that surround each potential player lost. We’ll try to take a look at things from a Las Vegas standpoint to see who they
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Since the 2006 Draft the Rangers have drafted 68 prospects and 22 of those players have appeared in an NHL game. Of that group of 22 players, 14 have played in 40 or more games and of those 14 only six are still Blueshirts: J.T. Miller, Pavel Buchnevich, Brady
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This is expected to be a summer full of change for the New York Rangers, but before any of that can happen, the team needs to go through the expansion draft -- where Las Vegas will be able to take an unprotected player from the Rangers with nothing being exchanged back
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Henrik Lundqvist and his twin brother Joel just led Team Sweden to victory at the 2017 IIHF World Championship. After a disappointing postseason with the Rangers, Henrik decided to join Joel, Team Sweden’s captain, at the tournament – marking the first time the brothers have played together in 12 years.
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Over the next few days Alain Vigneault and General Manager Jeff Gorton will meet to discuss what they expect to happen this offseason. This should be the beginning of the end of the old regime. That’s not to say Gorton is being shadowed or controlled by Glen Sather and
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With the 2017 Expansion Draft currently slated to be the next major event on the New York Rangers’ calendar, the general expectations around what Jeff Gorton will do are cut and dry. Aside from the occasional ludicrous call to leave one of the team’s star forwards exposed in the
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The Rangers are out of the 2017 Playoffs, but some of them are still playing hockey. Four New York Rangers are representing their countries in the 2017 World Championship. Brady Skjei, Kevin Hayes, Oscar Lindberg and Henrik Lundqvist flew out to join their national teams the day after breakup day.
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If the world learned anything about the Rangers in this playoff season, it’s that they are mercurial. Some nights they tick like a Swiss clock, while others they seem to have met for the first time moments before puck drop. We saw that inconsistency in the players, as well.
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It’s all too easy to focus on the big names on the Rangers roster who disappointed and failed to rise to the occasion in the playoffs. But today we’re again going to turn the focus to a rookie who found a way to exceed expectations. Today we’re
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Brady Skjei was arguably the Rangers best defenseman in the playoffs. Ryan McDonagh and Dan Girardi played tougher minutes against the big guns on the Canadiens and Senators, but Skjei shined in his limited role. It was no secret that the Rangers needed their blue line to step up in
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With the Rangers quest for a fifth Stanley Cup falling short, just as it does every spring, takes are flying in from all around the hockey world questioning what could have been, and what’s next for a Rangers’ team with seemingly no direction. With Henrik Lundqvist heading into his
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There was a time when small progress was good enough. There was a time when going from a first round exit to a second round one was considered a success. There was a time when Henrik Lundqvist wasn't getting older, when change actually happened, when the organization seemed