January 2011
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Lundqvist, Staal and Stepan prepare for All-Star...
Whilst most of the New York Rangers organisation will be resting their road-weary bodies through the All-Star break this weekend, the same cannot be said for Henrik Lundqvist, Marc Staal and Derek Stepan. The trio, three of the teams’ most important pieces this season, will all be headed to Raleigh, North Carolina to take part in the All-Star game festivities Friday through Sunday.
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Del Zotto, Grachev sent down as Blueshirts heal...
Michael Del Zotto, Evgeny Grachev, Chad Kolarik, Brodie Dupont and Kris Newbury have all been returned to the Connecticut Whale as the New York Rangers head in to the All-Star break. The Rangers, defeated at home by the Florida Panthers last night, will look to rest bodies after a gruelling month of injuries and near-misses. Alternate captain Ryan Callahan is expected to return to the line-up on...
Gaborik scores four as Rangers batter Leafs, 7-0.
Marian Gaborik scored four times, Artem Anisimov added four assists and Henrik Lundqvist earned his league-leading seventh shutout of the season as the Rangers ran riot over a hapless Toronto Maple Leafs at Madison Square Garden last night.
Gaborik, just 3 goals in his previous 19 games, returned to his deadly best on a day the Blueshirts learnt they would be without top-scorer Brandon...
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Zuccarello earns crucial OT win for Rangers.
Mats Zuccarello’s goal 3:19 into overtime, his first in the National Hockey League, gave the New York Rangers a 2-1 win over the Carolina Hurricanes last night. Zuccarello picked up Brandon Dubinsky’s loose puck behind the Carolina net, circled in front and beat Cam Ward short-side to hand the Rangers a crucial second point on the night.
Both Cam Ward and the Rangers’ Henrik Lundqvist were...
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Rangers/Hurricanes pre-game.
Carolina Hurricanes (18-15-5) @ New York Rangers (22-15-3) (7PM EST)
The Rangers return home to Madison Square Garden tonight as they look to rebound against the Carolina Hurricanes after a less than spectacular road-trip through the sunshine state. The Blueshirts were lifeless in losses to Tampa Bay and Florida this past weekend, salvaging their only point in the dying seconds of Saturday’s...
December 2010
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Rangers topple Devils, roll into new year.
As Brandon Dubinsky put the gloss on a 3-1 win over the New Jersey Devils on Wednesday night with an empty-net goal six seconds from time, the New York Rangers collectively slapped the exclamation mark on a strong year for the organisation. The Rangers won’t play again until New Years Day when they visit the Tampa Bay Lightning, the team that sits directly above them in the Eastern Conference...
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Rangers/Devils pre-game.
New York Rangers (21-14-2) @ New Jersey Devils (9-24-2) (7PM EST)
The New York Rangers will look to end 2010 with a bang as they pay a final visit across the Hudson River to take on the slumping New Jersey Devils tonight. The Devils sit at the foot of the National Hockey League with a dismal 9-24-2 record bolstered by a 5-game losing skid heading in to tonight’s contest. In contrast, the...
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Rangers outgun, outscore Islanders in big win.
The New York Rangers outshot their rival Islanders by a 52-20 margin en route to a dominant 7-2 win Monday night. Mats Zuccarello bagged his first NHL point, fellow rookie Derek Stepan scored for the fourth straight game and Marian Gaborik finally found form in a 1+1 night as the Blueshirts powerplay finally clicked.
Dwayne Roloson made 45 saves for a beleaguered Islanders side clearly...
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Rangers/Islanders pre-game.
New York Islanders (9-18-6) @ New York Rangers (20-14-2) (7PM EST)
The Rangers return to action after the Christmas break as they host the rival Islanders at Madison Square Garden tonight. The game goes ahead in spite of the heavy snowstorms across the East coast over the past 24 hours, with the Islanders looking to win their fourth straight against a Ranger team that’s sat idle since before...
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Rangers gain point, lose shootout.
Ryan Malone beat Henrik Lundqvist in the 11th round of an epic shootout to give the Tampa Bay Lightning a 4-3 win over the New York Rangers on Thursday night. Malone beat Lundqvist high glove side to end a game that’d see-saw’d back and forth throughout the night. Derek Stepan tied the game at 3 late in the third period, beating Lightning goaltender Dan Ellis at his near post with a nifty drag...
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Rangers/Lightning pre-game.
Tampa Bay Lightning (19-10-5) @ New York Rangers (20-14-1) (7PM EST)
The New York Rangers, fresh from a lengthy layoff following Saturday night’s below par loss in Philadelphia, look to topple the Tampa Bay Lightning at Madison Square Garden tonight. The Lightning skate in to MSG fresh from an overtime defeat to the New York Islanders last night and will undoubtedly look to third-year forward...
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Rangers/Flyers pre-game.
New York Rangers (20-13-1) @ Philadelphia Flyers (21-7-5) (1PM EST)
The Rangers head in to Philadelphia for a Saturday matinee as they search for a fourth straight win against their divisional rivals. The Blueshirts have already beaten Washington (7-0), Pittsburgh (4-1) and Phoenix (4-3) in a week of character building wins for the team, but have been hit by a long-term injury to key forward...
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Lundqvist blanks Islanders as Rangers sweep...
Henrik Lundqvist picked up his 4th shutout of the season, Marc Staal scored a powerplay goal and Brian Boyle capped a reasonably comfortable victory over the Islanders with an empty-netter for the now 16-11-1 Rangers.
Lundqvist made 17 saves for one of his easier career bagels, whilst Staal scored from the point after a slick passing move with rookie forward Derek Stepan. Stepan, continuing...
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Rangers/Islanders pre-game... again.
New York Islanders (5-13-5) @ New York Rangers (15-11-1) (7PM EST)
The Rangers and Islanders meet for the second time in as many nights at Madison Square Garden this evening. The Rangers, an NHL-leading 6-0 in the second game of back-to-backs this season, will look to build on last nights’ 6-5 win on Long Island, a game decided by Marian Gaborik’s hat-trick goal with five minutes remaining in...
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Gaborik scores three as Rangers edge Isles.
Marian Gaborik notched his second hat-trick of the season, Sean Avery picked up three assists and Henrik Lundqvist relieved Martin Biron as the Rangers edged out their New York rivals 6-5 in a topsy-turvy encounter at Nassau Colisseum last night.
The two sides traded leads in a game that continually threatened to swing either way, but it was Gaborik’s game-winner five minutes from time...
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RANGERS/ISLANDERS PRE-GAME.
New York Rangers (14-11-1) @ New York Islanders (5-12-5) (7PM EST)
The Rangers and Islanders meet tonight for the first of two home-and-home games between the New York rivals this week.
The sides have already met this season, the Islanders skating away with a 6-4 win at Nassau Coliseum owing to late Rangers penalties in just the Blueshirts second game of the year: however, things have taken a...
November 2010
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Recap; Gaborik return sparks Rangers.
It may only be four games, but Marian Gaborik’s return to the New York Rangers line-up has clearly given the Blueshirts a much-needed boost. Through those four games the Rangers are 3-1, with a one-goal loss to the Boston Bruins last night the sole blemish on a strong run for the team.
The Rangers have had to do without Gaborik for the best part of a month after he was checked shoulder-first...
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Rangers/Bruins pre-game.
Boston Bruins (9-5-1) @ New York Rangers (10-7-1) (7PM EST)
The Rangers and Boston Bruins meet for the second time this year tonight at Madison Square Garden as the Blueshirts prepare to debut their new Heritage jerseys in honour of their 85th anniversary. Henrik Lundqvist, too, will wear a special ‘classic’ version of his goaltending mask to accompany the jersey.
New York and Boston have...
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Rangers prevail, best Penguins in OT.
Ryan Callahan scored the game-winner in overtime as the New York Rangers won their third straight game and their first ever in Pittsburgh’s new Consol Energy Center. Callahan completed his Gordie Howe hat-trick when he tipped in Brandon Dubinsky’s feed on a 2-on-1 breakaway after a turnover in the Penguins end. Callahan had earlier dropped the gloves with Pittsburgh’s Mike Comrie and assisted on...
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Rangers/Penguins pre-game.
New York Rangers (9-7-1) @ Pittsburgh Penguins (9-8-1) (7PM EST)
The New York Rangers and Pittsburgh Penguins meet for the first time this season as the Blueshirts go in search of a valuable road win against their divisional rivals.
The Rangers are barely 24 hours removed from an 8-2 thumping of the Edmonton Oilers at Madison Square Garden yesterday afternoon, whilst the Penguins enter the...
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Gaborik scores 3, Rangers hit 8 vs. hapless...
Marian Gaborik scored his first hat-trick of the season in just his second game back from injury as the Rangers routed the Edmonton Oilers 8-2 in a fiery Sunday matinee game at Madison Square Garden.
Gaborik, fresh from a 42-goal, 86-point season in his first year with the Rangers, scored three and assisted on another as the Blueshirts top-line clicked against an awful Oilers defense. Alex...
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Rangers/Oilers pre-game.
Edmonton Oilers (4-8-3) @ New York Rangers (8-7-1) (12:30PM ET)
The Rangers and Oilers meet for the first time this season as the Blueshirts prepare to welcome back former head-coach Tom Renney to Madison Square Garden.
The Oilers head into New York fresh from a 4-3 overtime loss in New Jersey whilst the Rangers will look to build on Thursday nights 3-2 win over the Buffalo Sabres that saw the...
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Rangers unveil Heritage Jersey.
The Rangers this evening unveiled their brand new Heritage Jersey during a ceremony at New York City’s Rockefeller Center. The jersey commemorates 85 years of Rangers hockey and will be debuted this coming Wednesday against fellow Original 6 team the Boston Bruins.
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Derek Step-an down?
The re-emergence of Marian Gaborik for last nights 3-2 overtime win against the Buffalo Sabres undoubtedly comes as a huge shot in the arm for a Rangers squad desperately short of goals so far this season.
Gaborik, a 42-goal scorer with the Blueshirts last year, had been sidelined for almost a month by a shoulder injury sustained in the October 15th 4-3 overtime loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs....
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Anisimov the hero as Rangers best Sabres in OT.
Artem Anisimov snapped a 10-game goalless streak as he scored twice in the Rangers 3-2 overtime win against the Buffalo Sabres last night.
Anisimov bagged the game-winning goal on a turnaround shot after Sabres goalie Jhonas Enroth had stopped the lively Russian just moments earlier. The second-year center stuck with the play before turning and firing a loose puck over Enroth’s glove side to...
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Gaborik returns as Rangers search for points.
BUFFALO SABRES (5-9-2) @ NEW YORK RANGERS (7-7-1) (7PM EST)
Marian Gaborik returns to the New York Rangers line-up tonight as the team looks to end a 2-game losing streak against the Buffalo Sabres at Madison Square Garden.
The Rangers have lost back-to-back games against the St. Louis Blues and Washington Capitals during their current four-game homestand, but will look to kick-on against the...
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Rangers find identity in absence.
The past two weeks have offered an intriguing insight into just what the future New York Rangers may look like. Besieged by the kind of injuries that’d passed the Blueshirts by in seasons past, the Rangers young core of Ryan Callahan, Brandon Dubinsky and Marc Staal were asked to lead the team forward minus the likes of Marian Gaborik (separated shoulder), captain Chris Drury (broken finger)...
October 2010
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Rangers fall as special teams falter.
Another game, another 5-on-4 winner. It’s become commonplace for the Rangers in an already young season to see their special teams units falter; in a 3-1 defeat to the Colorado Avalanche last night the Blueshirts extra-man corps went a miserable 0-for-5, whilst the penalty kill delivered an even more embarrassing 0-for-2 ratio behind a pair of Chris Stewart strikes.
The Rangers penalty kill...
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Blueshirts lick wounds, fall to Leafs in overtime.
And so it begins. The most concerning factor for the New York Rangers following last nights 4-3 overtime defeat to the Toronto Maple Leafs will be the long-term injuries sustained by captain Chris Drury and top goalscorer Marian Gaborik.
Drury, 2 periods into his return following a pre-season shot-blocking incident that lead to a broken index finger, ironically managed to fracture the same...
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WatchCoach John Tortorella and an assortment of Rangers speak ahead of the Blueshirts home bow tonight.
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Blueshirts prepare for home opener.
The New York Rangers are preparing themselves for a potentially tricky home opener against the 3-0 Toronto Maple Leafs at Madison Square Garden tomorrow evening. Captain Chris Drury returns to the side after injury, whilst defenseman Matt Gilroy comes in for fellow blueliner Michael Sauer on the back-end.
Toronto’s hot start has surprised many. The Maple Leafs have already racked up impressive...
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Stepan scores three as Rangers blunt Sabres.
Ranger rookie Derek Stepan became just the fourth player in National Hockey League history to score a hat-trick on debut as the Blueshirts beat the Buffalo Sabres 6-3 in their season opener.
Stepan scored all three goals from in front on a night where everything seemed to go right for the ex-Badger; he deflected home Dan Girardi’s wrister from the point and then shelved two loose pucks past...
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Kennedy, White waived; move for D likely.
Tim Kennedy and Todd White have this afternoon been waived by the New York Rangers, with NY Post writer Larry Brooks adding that a move for a defenseman is ‘likely’.
Tim Kennedy and Todd White on waivers. Deal for D likely in works.
Given the amount of cap space on the Blueshirts roster at this point, it wouldn’t be a surprise to see Sheldon Souray acquired - much to this...
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Prospal done?
Take Larry Brooks ‘source’ with a pinch of salt at this point. Nonetheless, things are not looking good for Vinny Prospal right now.
Meanwhile, a well-placed source has told The Post that there’s little reason for optimism that the condition of Vinny Prospal’s right knee will improve following his enforced two-week rest period. Indeed, we’re told that it would be...
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Zuccarello, Weise return for final pre-season...
Mats Zuccarello and Dale Weise will play for the New York Rangers in Ottawa tonight. Both were cut from the Rangers roster earlier in the week but will return in place of the injured Chris Drury and Vinny Prospal. Marian Gaborik, Alex Frolov, Ryan Callahan, Sean Avery and Marc Staal are also rested for the Blueshirts, who are looking to improve to 5-1 in pre-season.
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September 2010
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Del Zotto bags 4 points in come from behind...
It was shaping up to be one of those games for second-year defenseman Michael Del Zotto after an early giveaway led to Ilya Kovalchuk’s opener for the New Jersey Devils last night. Del Zotto looked to clear the puck down the boards three minutes into the game, only to have it taken away by the Devils’ Zach Parise, who in turn fed the fiery Russian sniper to roast Henrik Lundqvist high glove-side...
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Redden waived by Rangers.
Defenseman Wade Redden will this afternoon be waived by the New York Rangers, seemingly ending a summer-long question mark over his future. Andrew Gross confirmed that the Blueshirts would send Redden through waivers at noon today, cutting his exasperating cap-hit from the Rangers’ roster.
GM Glen Sather commented on the issue;
“Difficult changing someone’s life like this...
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Rangers make initial roster cuts.
The Blueshirts have this afternoon announced their first roster cuts of pre-season.
Following last nights 4-3 overtime victory against the New Jersey Devils, John Tortorella has trimmed the squad to 38, cutting 25 bodies that include the likes of Dylan McIlrath, Christian Thomas and Brodie Dupont. McIlrath was always a shoe-in to return to Moose Jaw for the upcoming WHL season, whilst top-level...
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Stepan, McDonagh star in pre-season win.
The New York Rangers edged past the New Jersey Devils 4-3 last night thanks to Marian Gaborik’s powerplay goal mid-way through overtime at Madison Square Garden.
It was a game dominated by the two top lines. Zach Parise, Travis Zajac and Ilya Kovalchuk all scored for the Devils, whilst the Blueshirts’ Alex Frolov, Derek Stepan and Gaborik showed excellent chemistry in a combined 6-point...
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Blueshirts prepare for pre-season opener.
The New York Rangers will hit the Madison Square Garden ice for the first time this season as they prepare to face the New Jersey Devils in the opening game of pre-season tonight.
The Blueshirts will be without Henrik Lundqvist, Michael Del Zotto, Ryan Callahan, Sean Avery, Vinny Prospal and Evgeny Grachev in a game that’s confirmed to see the Devils dominating trio of Zach Parise, Travis Zajac...