All Entries Tagged With: "Artem Anisimov"
Rangers Stars Shine In Ottawa
The New York Rangers were well-represented at the NHL All-Star festivities this past weekend in Ottawa, sending head coach John Tortorella and 4 players to the festivities. The contingent certainly made their presence felt from the start of the fantasy draft on Thursday to the naming of the MVP at the close of the game [...]
24/7, Episode 4 – The Rangers Recap
I was oh-so-looking forward to recapping last week’s episode, where Michael Del Zotto’s ugly Christmas sweater brought a whole new spin on “reindeer games”, and you just prayed Marian Gaborik didn’t injure himself lugging that tree to his apartment although you already knew he didn’t. Unfortunately, reality hit my less-than-humongous-big universe last week and I was [...]
24/7, Episode 1 – The Rangers Recap
The NHL struck gold when it began the Winter Classic in 2008. They then upped the ante for the 2011 edition, partnering with HBO Sports to bring us the “24/7: Road To The Winter Classic” series, in which we got an unprecedented, behind-the-scenes look at a month in the life of the NHL. And now, [...]
Tampa Bay Lightning Week in Review – Featuring The Quarterdeck Log
The Tampa Bay Lightning are 12-15-2 with 26 points through 29 games. After 29 games last season, the Bolts were 15-10-4 with 34 points. The Lightning are in fourth place in the Southeast Division and trail the division leading Florida Panthers by eleven points. Tampa Bay has fallen to 13th place in the 15 team Eastern Conference. After 29 [...]
Tampa Bay Lightning Week in Review – Featuring The Quarterdeck Log
The Tampa Bay Lightning are 11-12-2 with 24 points through 25 games. After 25 games last season, the Bolts were 14-8-3 with 31 points. The Lightning are in fourth place in the Southeast Division and trail the division leading Florida Panthers by eight points. Tampa Bay has fallen to 13th place in the 15 team Eastern [...]
Net Results Lead To Points For The Rangers
After over 15,000 miles of travel over the last month, the New York Rangers will finally get to sleep in their own beds for a few weeks as they settle in and open the partially renovated Madison Square Garden with a 6-game homestand. Through seven games played in three countries on two continents and five [...]
Back From Sweden, Rangers Look To Regroup And Rebound
Unfortunately for the New York Rangers, there was no Stepan-esque magic from a year ago as they opened their season in Stockholm, Sweden. Rather, the Rangers returned to North America with 2 points after a 3-2 overtime loss to the Los Angeles Kings and a 2-1 shootout loss to the Anaheim Ducks. The Rangers don’t really have [...]
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum
OK, that’s not quite true. I never made it over to the Forum. But the Bell Centre was directly to my left when I looked out my hotel room window. If I haven’t completely given it away with that last sentence, I spent this past weekend in Montreal and got to enjoy a few days [...]
Rangers’ Puzzle Falling Into Place
Unlike other teams in the National Hockey League these last few weeks, the New York Rangers have not undergone a radical makeover. They did get the big fish of the free agency pond in Brad Richards and signed Mike Rupp. They also re-signed one of their own UFAs, Ruslan Fedotenko, to a 1-year deal. But besides [...]
Keep Calm And Carry On
A friend of mine has a bag with that phrase printed on it. Sunday, it seemed like a lot of Rangers fans were doing the latter rather than the former when Larry Brooks of the New York Post published that Brandon Dubinsky was seeking a multi-year deal at $4.5 million a year. Brooks didn’t attribute [...]
Forward Thinking – The Rangers Up Front
Monday was break-up day for the New York Rangers after getting bounced out of the playoffs in five games by the Washington Capitals. Constructed as is, this team is clearly not ready to contend. While there are some decent young pieces in place, not only will they need to mature and improve, but they will [...]
Rangers Pretty Quiet On Deadline Day; Lose Biron To Injury
It’s a terribly overused cliché, and I’m going to go ahead and use it anyway. Sometimes, the best trades are the ones you don’t make. I think that holds true for the Rangers on this trade deadline day which overall was very quiet after a flurry of moves over the last few weeks. If Brad [...]
Lucky 7′s On An Unlucky Day
Another day, another injury to a New York Ranger. Prior to the game, the New York Rangers announced that Brandon Dubinsky would miss the next 3-4 weeks after an MRI revealed a stress fracture of the fibula in his left leg. So there were the Rangers, trying to stop a 2-game losing streak and now [...]
You Win Some, You Lose Some
After playing two-and-a-half periods of hockey tonight that could be classified as an insomniac’s dream-come-true, the New York Rangers somehow found a way to score four unanswered goals in the third to defeat the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-1 at the CONSOL Energy Center. The victory was the Rangers’ League-leading 12th on the road. The Penguins came [...]
A Wild Afternoon at MSG
Today’s New York Rangers-Edmonton Oilers game had all the makings of a trap game for the home team. The Rangers could’ve just figured, “Eh, they’re awful. This is the last game of a road trip during which they got pummeled 7-1 by Carolina and 6-2 by Detroit.” They could’ve got caught up in the whole [...]
Turning 2 Negatives Into A Positive
I sat down yesterday evening with the full intent on writing about some New York Rangers negatives. First I was thinking about writing about how lifeless both the team and the crowd were in Sunday night’s loss to the St. Louis Blues. But thinking about it was just making me as bored as I was [...]
Rowing In The Same Direction
What a difference a week makes. Following the New York Rangers’ home opener on October 15th, the news was pretty grim. No Vinny Prospal, no Chris Drury, and worst of all, no Marian Gaborik for a few weeks. The Rangers responded last Monday with a lackluster effort against the Colorado Avalanche, losing 3-1 before heading [...]
Two Left Wings and a Prayer
I’m really excited that New York Rangers training camp officially opening today. It’s a clean slate. It’s time to forget about the shootout loss to Philadelphia that left them on the outside of the playoffs by one point and made the slog through the offseason even longer. I’m really trying my best to be positive [...]
Shots from the Point: 12/05/09
In this Edition: Sid sidelined with a Groin Injury – Matt Cooke is Back, Chris Bourque is gone(?) – & SCF preview? Matt Cooke Back Penguins forward Matt Cooke returns to the lineup tonight after serving a two game suspension for his high hit on Ranger’s forward Artem Anisimov last Monday. Cooke’s return means that [...]
Rangers “Shuffle” Roster, as They Search for a “W”
Nearly three-quarters of the season in the history books and a team that can’t seem to put up a consistent effort (let alone win a game), the Rangers front-office has done what they do best: overreact — only this time the Rangers didn’t go out and trade youth for patch-work parts, or use their money [...]