All Entries Tagged With: "Marian Gaborik"
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 [...]
Uneasy Lies The Head That Wears A Crown
The New York Rangers gave themselves one mother of a task Sunday afternoon at Madison Square Garden after dropping a 2-1 overtime decision to the Washington Capitals Friday night. Fend off elimination. And fend it off they did in what was a 3-hour emotional roller coaster, holding on to dear life for a 1-0 game [...]
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 [...]
Gone Gaby, Gone
As the clocked ticked to 3pm (ET) Wednesday, the Rangers wound up making arguably the biggest move of the day, sending struggling sniper Marian Gaborik to the Columbus Blue Jackets. Also sent was minor leaguers Steve Delisle (who returns to the Jackets after being sent to the Rangers in the Rick Nash trade) and Blake [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
No Hockey. No Dollars. No Sense.
“The only thing I can say is that I want us to play hockey.” -New York Rangers owner James Dolan to ESPN New York reporter Katie Strang on September 9th, 2012 There might not be another NHL team that has benefited from the last collective bargaining agreement the way the Rangers have. In the post-Stanley [...]
An Upside To A Delayed Start?
With the calendar flipped to September, this is normally an exciting time for hockey fans. Camps will soon be open, preseason games will be getting under way, and in a few weeks, the new season will commence. But as we all know, this is not a normal year. I received an email from the Rangers [...]
Hockey Indie’s Divisional Predictions – Eastern Conference
The clock continues to tick ever closer to September 15th, and the news coming out of last week’s CBA negotiations makes a lockout more and more inevitable. Despite the uncertainty, teams are continuing on as normal, notifying season ticket holders when to expect their deliveries; putting individual game tickets on sale; even painting the arena ice. [...]
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 [...]
Hockey Independent Offseason Predictions: Does Alex Semin Have An NHL Future?
Members of the Hockey Independent crew have come together again for another series of offseason articles for your reading pleasure. The contributing authors to today’s piece will be Cris Cohen (New York Rangers), Seth Levin (New Jersey Devils), Alex Muscat (Detroit Red Wings) and myself, Benjamin Woodward (Boston Bruins). Each of us have taken on [...]
Jumping To Conclusions
It’s been one week since the New York Rangers were eliminated by the New Jersey Devils. No sooner than Adam Henrique poked the puck in the net, fans, media and experts were already at work dissecting what when wrong and pointing fingers as to who was to blame for the disappointing conclusion to the season. [...]
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 – [...]
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 [...]
