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If Rangers want to win, Nash must step up
By Tom Dougherty (@todougherty) You either love or you hate John Tortorella. Rangers’ winger Carl Hagelin has to be one of those who do not like Tortorella very much right now. On Saturday, Tortorella offered his opinion on why Hagelin isn’t being used on the power play. “Because he stinks on the power play,” he [...]
Marchand’s Overtime Goal Gives Boston 3-2 Win in Game 1
BOSTON, MA – Just three nights after successfully completing a miraculous three-goal comeback in Game 7 against the Toronto Maple Leafs, the Boston Bruins were back on the ice on Thursday evening for the opening contest of their Eastern Conference Semi-Final series against the New York Rangers. In what was an exciting, back-and-forth contest, the Bruins [...]
New Faces Shine In Their Broadway Debuts
Still trying to wrap my brain around the New York Rangers’ last 48 hours, I keep coming back to one word to sum it up. Surreal. And if I were still taking medication for the lower body injury I sustained last weekend that currently has me listed as day-to-day, I might have chalked up the [...]
March Sadness
As the calendar moved from February into March, it looked like the New York Rangers had finally found their way, rattling off four straight wins. What followed was the reemergence of a team that can’t get out of its own way and is now in a dogfight to merely make the playoffs, never mind finishing first in [...]
The Rangers Midterm Report Card
The New York Rangers got the second half of their season off to a less-than spectacular start, dropping a 3-1 decision to the Buffalo Sabres Tuesday might at the First Niagara Center. It was disappointing considering the opponent and how prior to that, they had won five of six games. Overall it hasn’t been the [...]
Lost … Then Found? The Rangers Week That Was
Brad Richards has looked so lost on the ice, even a GPS wouldn’t help. Marian Gaborik is probably still removing splinters after being benched again last Saturday. The power play is so god-awful, the Rangers should be the ones getting the credit for killing their opponents’ penalties. It’s been a frustrating start to the 2013 [...]
Rangers Edge Bruins in Shootout Thriller at TD Garden
BOSTON, MA – After Saturday afternoon’s contest against the Tampa Bay Lightning was postponed in the aftermath of the 2013 blizzard for the ages, the Boston Bruins were back on the ice Tuesday to do battle with the New York Rangers for the final time this season. In what was undoubtedly the most exciting finish to [...]
Discipline, Drought Lead To Broadway Blues
The New York Rangers chose to carry last year’s “This Is New York …” campaign into the 2013 season. The sentence is typically completed with such words as “intensity” and “passion” that describe the team’s style of play. What we’ve been treated to so far is not the “New York Hockey” that Rangers fans have [...]
Opening Night Musings
No, it certainly wasn’t what we’ve come to know as quintessential New York Rangers hockey on the TD Garden ice Saturday night. We did see quintessential Boston Bruins hockey by a squad virtually the same as last season’s, and the combination was enough to send the Blueshirts home with a 3-1 defeat. A few musings: [...]
Bruins Sink Rangers in 3-1 Opening Night Victory at TD Garden
BOSTON, MA- Finally! For the first time since Wednesday April 25, NHL hockey made its triumphant return to the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. All questions of whether or not the three-month long work stoppage would affect fan support in the Hub were completely squashed as a sell-out crowd of 17, 565 packed into the city’s [...]
2013 Eastern Conference Power Rankings
The 2013 NHL season is no longer an 82 game marathon, but instead is a 48 game dash to the finish line. Will teams that had multiple players skating in Europe fair better? Will veteran squads win because they will have fresh legs all season long? Only the next few months will tell. Here are [...]
Keep The Good Going
Outside of hockey, one of my favorite things to do is practice yoga. The lockout has allowed me to practice more, since there’s been no need for me to blow it off to get home or to Madison Square Garden in time for opening faceoff. When I attended class this past Thursday, the instructor opened [...]
Who’s Your Bolts Rushmore?
While the frustrating NHL lockout has taken away our game, it gives us time to ponder other fun, hockey related questions. In an attempt to bring together Tampa Bay fans and writers, I asked Lightning Nation, “Who is your Bolts Rushmore?” Two hundred combined emails, Facebook messages and Twitter direct messages were sent out [...]
Sandy Pens Her Own Chapter Of The Lockout Saga
It’s been two weeks since superstorm Sandy paid a most unwelcome visit to the eastern seaboard. People in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut are still trying, to varying degrees, pick up the pieces of their lives. For some, it’s figuring out which day they can get gas. For others, who have lost everything, it’s [...]
Boston Bruins Offseason Notebook: Horton Cleared, Julien Earns Extension, B’s Re-Up With CBS Boston
Bruins, Head Coach Claude Julien Agree To Terms On Contract Extension – Thirteen months ago, Claude Julien became the first Boston Bruins’ head coach to hoist the Stanley Cup above his head since Tom Johnson in May of 1972. The Blinder River, Ontario native was rewarded for his efforts this week, in receiving a brand [...]
From Blue Jacket To Blueshirt – Nash Is Finally A Ranger
Glen Sather and Scott Howson have been playing a game of chicken since the calendar turned to 2012. The man desperate to upgrade his team versus the man desperate to get a king’s ransom for his team’s biggest asset. Which one would blink first? After the mass hysteria of trade speculation that the Columbus Blue [...]
A Bittersweet End To A Surprise Season
Heading into Friday night’s game, fans and the media were talking about 1994. In a series of odd coincidences, it was the same 2 teams matching up in the Eastern Conference Finals. Like 18 years ago, the Rangers were heading into game six facing elimination. Even the date for the game six was identical – [...]
The King Reigns On Both Sides Of The Hudson
In the first two rounds of the playoffs, the New York Rangers won game 1, lost game 2 and then won game 3. Their Eastern Conference Final series followed the same pattern for the first two and they were looking to continue that pattern and get a game 3 victory over the New Jersey Devils [...]
This Seems Familiar
On Monday night, the New York Rangers were moments away from having to stave off elimination 2 days later. That is, until Joel Ward of the Washington Capitals took an ill-advised high-sticking double minor for cutting Carl Hagelin. With Henrik Lundqvist pulled for a 2-man advantage, Brad Richards connected with 7.6 seconds to spare to [...]
Possession Is Nine-Tenths Of The Game
Memo to the “hockey experts” who predicted that the New York Rangers would easily dispatch the Ottawa Senators in 4 or 5 games: Go back and watch all 4 games of the season series between these 2 teams. If you had asked Rangers fans as the regular season wound down which potential opponent they’d least [...]
