All Entries Tagged With: "Brandon Dubinsky"
Rangers Waiving Goodbye To Drury?
For the New York Rangers and their fans, free agency 2007 was like a drunken, Elvis-impersonator-officiated quickie Las Vegas wedding. At the time it happens, you’re all giddy and excited. But the next day, once the hangover wears off and you realize what actually happened, you’re ready to run to the courthouse for an annulment. [...]
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 Bow Out On The Beltway
The Rangers’ 2010-11 campaign came to a close Saturday with a 3-1 game 5 loss to the Washington Capitals, going with a whimper rather than with the bang that they’ve played with most of the season. No question the Capitals are clearly a more skilled team with better talent; I have no problem giving the [...]
Gabbing Gabby Turns Spotlight on Himself
At the end of the Rangers’ last-minute (well, more like last minute and a half) 3-2 win over the Washington Capitals Sunday, 3 things seemed to be the topics of conversation: 1 – The controversial no-goal call at the buzzer at the end of the second period. At Madison Square Garden, while the play was [...]
Ranger Danger
It’s not looking good for the boys in blue. After a heartbreaker of an OT loss to the Capitals in game 1, the New York Rangers were shut out by the Washington Capitals 2-0 in game 2. A few quick thoughts: The Good – Let’s face it, there wasn’t a whole lot of good going [...]
Rangers Answer The Bell, Now Wait (updated)
After spending my Friday night channel surfing between the Hurricanes-Thrashers and Flyers-Sabres games, I went to bed feeling somewhat unsettled. When the final horn sounded, Buffalo clinched a playoff spot as a result of their overtime win, and Carolina’s drubbing of Atlanta moved them into the 8th spot by virtue of holding the first tiebreaker [...]
Taking The Bitter With The Sweet
What an unreal last 3 days for the New York Rangers. Coming off a humiliating 6-2 defeat at the hands of the rival New York Islanders, they managed Sunday afternoon to pull out a 3-2 shootout win on the road over the Philadelphia Flyers. Monday night, even before the puck dropped against the Boston Bruins, [...]
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 [...]
Rangers Acquire McCabe
The New York Rangers brought to reality a trade that had been speculated on for quite awhile, acquiring 35-year-old defenseman Bryan McCabe from the Florida Panthers. The Rangers sent forward Tim Kennedy and their 3rd round pick in the 2011 Entry Draft to the Panthers. McCabe clearly does not fit within the “go with the [...]
As Rangers Heal, Decisions Loom
Having already lost 193 man-power games this season, most of the New York Rangers have had close to a week to rest and more importantly, heal. Monday afternoon, Ryan Callahan, Dan Girardi, Vinny Prospal, Brandon Dubinsky and Erik Christensen participated in practice, and without non-contact jerseys. Word is that Callahan (broken hand) and Girardi (ribs) [...]
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 [...]
Streaky Blues Fall to Rangers 2-1
If it’s not one thing it’s another. The cliche applies well to the St. Louis Blues. The culprit in Saturday night’s 2-1 loss to the New York Rangers was the power play. Lethargic zone entry and substandard passing led to no conversions in six man advantages. The first period was slop straight from a Grant’s [...]
Blues Gameday: Rangers Come To Scottrade
The St. Louis Blues (20-13-6, 46 points) return to Scottrade Center to take on the New York Rangers (24-15-3, 51 points). Last Meeting November 7th, 2010 – Blues won 2-0 at Madison Square Garden Last time the two clubs met was the final victory in the seven game winning streak that gave the Blues a [...]
A Flair For The Dramatics
Just when I thought I had seen a crazy game on Sunday versus the Edmonton Oilers, the New York Rangers managed to top that one with a roller-coaster of a 3-2 overtime victory on the road against the Pittsburgh Penguins. Looking on the surface at some of the stats, this was a game that you [...]
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 [...]
Blues Win Beantown Battle & Move on to NYC
For those “old school” folks out there who dislike the league’s new head shot rule, last night didn’t further their cause. The throwdown between the leagues top defensive teams was full of big, clean hits and physical play from end to end. Ending in multiple post shots and a 2-1 St. Louis Blues shootout win. [...]
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 [...]
Stepan It
Rookie Derek Stepan stole the show Saturday night as the New York Rangers opened their 85th anniversary season with a 6-3 victory in Buffalo against the Sabres. Stepan, centering a 3rd line with Sean Avery and Ruslan Fedotenko, scored 3 goals in the first 2 periods, becoming the first rookie since Fabian Brunnstrom in 2008 [...]
