All Entries Tagged With: "Marian Gaborik"
Top-20 worst bang-for-the-buck NHL forwards in 2010-11
When the 2010-11 NHL regular season ended about three weeks ago, some teams analyzed the production of some of their key players thinking why did we give so much money to the players listed below. While some productive players like Joe Thornton (21 goals, but 70 points), Henrik Sedin (19 goals, but 94 points) and [...]
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 [...]
Broadway Breakdown
The New York Rangers have a 29-1 record when going into the 3rd period with a lead this season. Last night was an inopportune time for them to add that sole blemish to their pristine record. It would be so easy to blame this on Marian Gaborik, for making a poor decision to try to [...]
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 [...]
Will This Underdog Have Its Day?
Saturday was a pretty tense day at home watching the last day of the Rangers’ regular season unfold. First sweating through their afternoon finale, then waiting the four hours until the puck dropped in Carolina and then sweating it out until late in that game when Tampa scored 2 empty net goals to seal their [...]
I Get By With A Little Help From My … Enemies?
Those of you who have been with me since day one last April may remember me mentioning a coworker (and friend) for whom, when it comes to hockey, it was love at first sight late last season. What I didn’t mention back then was that she took a liking to the Buffalo Sabres. So while [...]
Head Games
The New York Rangers’ recent slide continued on Sunday with a 4-2 loss to the Philadelphia Flyers. It was a game Marian Gaborik left after the first period. Postgame, it was revealed that Gaborik was suffering from a concussion. Gaborik did not accompany the Rangers Monday on their flight to Carolina for their critical Tuesday [...]
DAILY RUMORS: The Possibility of Gaborik Being Dealt
With just over two weeks remaining until the NHL’s 2011 trade deadline plenty of names are being tossed around as potential trade bait. That is of course to be expected at this time of year. Some, like New Jersey’s Jason Arnott or Ottawa’s Chris Phillips, can certainly be considered prime trade candidates given they’re currently [...]
The Skating Wounded
Perhaps the Dolans should change Madison Square Garden’s acronym from MSG to MASH. The Rangers managed to rebound from a poor defensive effort in Carolina and came from behind twice to defeat the Atlanta Thrashers 3-2 in a shootout Saturday night. Wojtek Wolski (with his 3rd since coming over from Phoenix) and Brian Boyle (continuing [...]
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 [...]
The Lost Weekend
Hear that? That’s the wind coming out of the sails from the Rangers’ 1-0 Thursday night win against the Vancouver Canucks. This was a lost weekend for the New York Rangers, as they failed to pick up any of the four points up for grabs both Saturday and Sunday night. Points they badly needed not [...]
Mats All, Folks!
At the midway point the New York Rangers were at an important crossroads in their season. Tonight they took on the Carolina Hurricanes at Madison Square Garden. It was only game 41, but still important. Heading into the matchup Carolina, with 2 games in hand, were 6 points behind the Rangers. The Rangers, in turn, [...]
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 [...]
The Captain’s In, So Who’s Out?
New York Rangers captain Chris Drury got the all clear Sunday on his finger that was re-broken in the October 15th home opener against Toronto. Today he was practicing on the fourth line with Todd White, Erik Christensen and Sean Avery, and it looks like he will be in the lineup when the Rangers take [...]
Capping Off A Wild Week
It’s certainly been a week of highs and lows for the New York Rangers. They began it with a rollicking 8-2 crushing of the Edmonton Oilers on Sunday and followed up with the dramatic blow-the-lead-then-come-from-behind 3-2 overtime victory on the road against the Pittsburgh Penguins. Wednesday, they debuted their new Heritage jerseys at home against [...]
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 [...]
Not Hitting The Panic Button – Yet
After a 6-3 victory on opening night in Buffalo, the New York Rangers have gone 0-2-1 in the 3 games that have followed. In game 1, the Rangers, for the most part, stayed out of the penalty box and were able to take advantage of the Sabres’ defensive mistakes and penalties. Since then they have [...]
