All Entries Tagged With: "larry brooks"
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 [...]
Daily Rumors: Picking Apart Potential “Blockbuster” Deals This Season
The NHL’s annual trade deadline is still three months away (February 28th, 2011) but the lack of significant player movement early in the season has more than a few pundits and bloggers musing over potential deals as the deadline nears. Thomas Copain of The Bleacher Report recently looked at ten potential “Blockbuster deals that could [...]
DAILY RUMORS: Dismissing the Possibility Of The Rangers Signing Kovalchuk
We at HockeyIndependent.com want to be your resource and filter for what is going on in the NHL. We try to disseminate the noise in the blogosphere. We don’t look to to attack those sources, but to question the veracity of the rumor with cold logic, hockey smarts and knowledge. To do that… we have [...]
Escape From New York: Rangers Head To The Coast
“Go west, young man.” Horace Greeley, a pretty good newspaperman, lifted (and changed) that quote and wound up getting credit for it down through the ages. He founded and ran the New York Tribune more than two centuries ago. The Trib was a thoughtful, temperate Whig mouthpiece, much respected by the nation’s intelligentsia. Not the [...]
KOVALCHUK TO ISLES???? Yeah Right. Here’s a Bridge You Can Buy Too
“The mere fact it is in Larry Brooks‘ column renders it suspect.” – Brian Burke, GM The Lighthouse Project is in limbo. There are questions on even if Charles Wang wants to even own the Islanders any more. The Isles are only two years deep in a rebuild. Meanwhile, we are nearing a time that [...]
SIBLING RIVALRY DEBUTS! NY Rangers At The NY Islanders 10/28/09
The Rangers face the NY Islanders over at the Coliseum. Sure, the Islanders aren’t exactly scaring anyone at dead last in the conference. But, hell, at least they aren’t Toronto. Meanwhile the Rangers have been on quite a run. But when they play one another, it doesn’t matter who is first nor last. That’s what [...]