Blue Notes
Steve Zipay takes you inside the locker room, home and on the road, with the New York Rangers.
NY 3, Caps 2: The Gamer and some post-game notes....
Brandon Prust does some heavy lifting for the Rangers: forechecking, killing penalties, blocking shots and taking on the enforcers in the league---most of whom tower over him. Last season, the winger scored 13 goals---five shorthanded---but...
Morning from MSG....Same lineup for NYR vs Caps
Henrik Lundvist will be in net and D Stu Bickel presumably will skate on right wing, as was the case yesterday in Philadelphia. Rusland Fedotenko (no surprise), still out after Dom Moore's hit....
Front office really in no hurry to bring Wojtek Wolski back from AHL, huh?
Just looking ahead: Assuming the Rangers finish in the top four in the East, they will have home-ice advantage in...
Cally's trick, 3 PPG sink Flyers, 5-2
PHILADELPHIA---As if splashed with a bucket of ice water, the Rangers sleepy power play woke up with a jolt this afternoon. For the first time since last March 11 against the Islanders---a stretch of 64 regular-season games--- the Rangers scored three power-play goals and whipped the Flyers for...
Some more pre-game stats.....
By the numbers....
Rangers are 3-1 in February; Flyers 2-2-1
Flyers have 858 penalty minutes; Rangers 720, in two fewer games.
In both games against Bobrovsky, Brad Richards has scored the game winner: On Nov. 26 and in the Winter Classic..
Michael Del Zotto leads NYR with four points (1-3) in the four games so far…
Rangers are 2-12 on the PP and...
Live from Philly: Lundqvist in, Bickel in as 7th D; Feds out
Greetings from Wells Fargo Center, first time here since late September exhibition
For the 1 p.m. matinee, Henrik Lundqvist, 4-0 against Philly this season, is in the cage, and we're expecting Sergei Bobrovsky for the Flyers. Reports yesterday said Ilya Bryzgalov had the flu.
Flyers are just four points behind the Rangers 73-69, in the Atlantic. NYR have two games in hand.
Stu...
Will Moore be fined/suspended for Fedotenko blindsider?
The NHL is looking at this for 3:05 in the third period last night.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxxc1YmmDzg
IMO, deserves at least a fine or a game.
Rangers were certainly displeased, if you read my stories from last night. Brian Boyle called it "garbage" and "very, very dirty" as a retaliation for previous hit along boards from Feds. Rcihards...
The Wrap: Post-game quotes, notes, stats
Photo credit: Errol Anderson
Impressive rally, no? Rangers coach John Tortorella knows the ebbs and flows of Brad Richards, who won a Stanley Cup with him in Tampa. “It’s a struggle right now for him,” Tortorella said before last night’s game against the Lightning, “but he’s still capable of making big plays at key times. I’ve got a tremendous amount of...
Slumping Richards tops Tampa in OT, 4-3
Photo credit: Errol Anderson
Slumping Brad Richards, who admitted he was feeling “a little lost offensively” scored at 2:37 of overtime tonight to lift the Rangers to a 4-3 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning.
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Stamkos's 36th gives Tampa 1-0 lead over NYR after 1
Not much was happening as time wound down in the first here at MSG. Then the league's leading goalscorer struck.
Michael Del Zotto' s pass hit Brad Richards' skate and before you knew it, Steven Stamkos had the puck barreling down the right side with Anton Stralman in pursuit. Stralman hooked him and the ref raised his arm for a delayed penalty, but Stamkos, diving, managed to get a backhander...
Biron. Eminger (but not Messier) in vs. Tampa tonight
Martin Biron was the first goaltender off the ice for the morning optional, and Lundqvist stayed on with coaches, including a guest, Mark Messier. Biron last played in the 4-3 shootout loss to New Jersey.
Looks as if rookie defenseman Stu Bickel will sit, and make way for Steve Eminger's return from a separated right shoulder. Bickel remained on the ice with Lundqvist, working with the...
