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As expected, Evgeny Grachev was sent back to Hartford this morning. Andrew Gross has the story: John Tortorella said before last night’s game he needed to see a reason to keep Evgeny Grachev in the lineup at the expense of Todd White and Grachev did not do anything to
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ESPN's spectacular overwhelming hockey coverage provided some very interesting insight into the Cigar's mentality. Courtesy of Pierre LeBrun: "Fans, for the most part, aren't very patient," Sather said. Ok, so I cherry-picked a quote out of an article built around a
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In case you haven't heard, tonight's game between the Knicks and Magic has been cancelled because of asbestos that fell at Madison Square Garden during a routine cleaning. From the NY Times: The issue arose while the ceiling was being cleaned overnight. Officials said that the
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As per Steve Zipay the Rangers will call up highly touted prospect Evgeny Grachev to replace the injured Derek Boogaard. Boogaard cut his hand during his fight with Shawn Thornton, and his hand is now infected. He will unlikely be able to go tomorrow or Saturday. Grachev, still just 20
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Andrew Gross has a few tidbits from practice: As reported earlier, Erik Christensen (right groin) was the only Ranger not on the ice for practice but coach John Tortorella called it a "maintenance day" and said Christensen would play tomorrow at Boston. Now for me, a "maintenance
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In the Daily News this morning, Jesse Spector talks about how John Tortorella and Glen Sather may not be seeing eye-to-eye on the Rangers current roster: John Tortorella has been diplomatic about it, but it appears from his recent comments that at the very least there's
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The Rangers spent the off-season making mostly minor moves: signing Alexander Frolov, offering Ruslan Fedotenko an invitation to camp that panned out, trading away the dead weight contracts of Donald Brashear and Aaron Voros, and adding guys like Todd White, "PT109" Tim Kennedy, and rookie Derek Stepan.
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Some reading material to get you through the afternoon: The SI.com staff all made their predictions for the 2010-11 season. Notice anything missing from all their picks? Oh, if you root around further through their picks and speculations, a couple of their writers have GM Glen Sather on
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Thanks to George on this, I just wanted to move it to a story for commenting purposes. From Bob McKenzie on Twitter The answer to the forwards question has been answered today. This likely means Chris Drury will be ready sooner rather than later. Who will be 13th forward when
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The Rangers have come to terms with Ruslan Fedotenko, who came to camp on a professional tryout. Fedotenko impressed management, coaching, teammates, and fans with his camp and preseason play. Fedotenko led the Rangers in scoring (1 G, 6 A) in his five preseason games, finishing with a +5 rating.
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Ryan McDonagh and Pavel Valentenko have been sent to Hartford, meaning Mike Sauer and Steve Eminger have made the team. Eminger and Sauer would have to clear waivers to be sent to the Whalepack, McDonagh and Valentenko would not. Not happy about McDonagh, but I understand the business aspect of
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In a surprising move, recently waived Wade Redden will report to Hartford instead of playing in Europe. Here is the tweet from Larry Brooks: NYP_Brooksie NEWS: Agent Don Meehan texts that Redden will report to AHL Hartford on Wednesday. There were conflicting reports that lead to the belief that