Rangers Report Blog

Courtesy of the Rangers: NEW YORK RANGERS POST-GAME NOTES Eastern Conference Quarterfinals, Game One April 13, 2011 – New York Rangers 1, Washington Capitals 2 (OT) Click here for Official Game Summary. Click here for Official Event Summary. *       The Rangers opened their Stanley Cup Playoffs with a 2-1 overtime… Read More →

Been a while, huh? The sprint begins. Matt Gilroy is in on defense, Mats Zuccarello in up front. Sean Avery and Steve Eminger are  prucha’d. Henrik Lundqvist vs. rookie Michal Neuvirth. Here are the lineups according to Andrew Gross: Rangers: Vinny Prospal-Artem Anisimov-Marian Gaborik Brandon Dubinsky-Derek Stepan-Ruslan Fedotenko Wojtek Wolski-Brian… Read More →

Remember to use the contests thread below for your predictions. OK? Some Stanley Cup odds and some odds on the Rangers-Capitals series. Courtesy of Bodog.com. (you can go to that site to seed the lengthy list of all playoff series odds and other betting propositions). Stanley Cup and Conference Odds… Read More →

Remember to use the contests thread below for your predictions. OK? —————- Here are the pre-game notes from the Rangers: NEW YORK RANGERS at WASHINGTON CAPITALS Eastern Conference Quarterfinals – Game 1 Wednesday, Apr. 13, 7:30 p.m. Verizon Center • Washington, DC TONIGHT’S GAME The Rangers will face-off against the… Read More →

On April 13, 1940, Bryan Hextall scored at 2:07 of overtime to beat the Toronto Maple Leaves 3-2 and give the Rangers their third Stanley Cup. I don’t know how many they’ve won since then, but I’ll try to research it. ———————————— Here’s my column on Henrik Lundqvist, from The… Read More →

Here are my position by position matchups for the Rangers-Capitals series. To enter the predictions contest, please use the previous thread below. Thanks. ————————- FORWARDS: Capitals — Not many teams have the skill up front that the Capitals possess. Alex Ovechkin, though having a down season (32 goals, after scoring… Read More →

First, a reminder. To enter the predictions contest, please use the earlier contest thread. Thank you. ——————- So the Devils won the draft lottery. Note that the last five times a team other than the last-place team won the lottery, the No. 1 picks were Patrick Kane, Alex Ovechkin, Marc-Andre… Read More →

Marc Staal: “Playoffs, special teams is always a huge component of trying to win a series. It’ll be big, coming up this week. We obviously pay attention to defense in our own zone and make sure we do those things properly to give ourselves chances to score. It’ll be interesting.”... Read More →

Will have Tortorella quotes shortly, followed by a few player quotes. Then later on we’ll have details on two contests—the predictions contest and the Second Bi-Annual Boneheads/Paul Mara Playoff Beard Contest Extravaganza, Picnic and Parade. So bear with me. ————————- John Tortorella: I asked him (for my column tomorrow) if… Read More →

I’m headed to practice later on. I will not be traveling to Games 1 and 2, but should be at every game thereafter, right through Game 7 of the finals. See youse later. From the New York Rangers (special thanks to Dino Ticinelli, who provides all the notes and stats… Read More →

Will have the Rangers’ wrap-up at another time. This is from the NHL: TO-THE-WIRE PLAYOFF RACES, OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCES HIGHLIGHTED 2010-11 NHL REGULAR SEASON NEW YORK (April 11, 2011)—It took until the final minute of the final game of the National Hockey League’s 1,230-game regular season to determine the 16th team… Read More →

Brandon Dubinsky: Said it was nerve-wracking watching Tampa-Carolina, especially when it got to 4-2. “But when it was 3-0, we were pretty excited about that.” On success vs. Washington this season: “Hopefully we can get a little bit of confidence. When you play a team well like we did, hopefully… Read More →

First an anecdote. You guys know that I’ve given Chris Drury a hard time once in a while … not as much as you all, but a hard time nonetheless. Well, before he left the lineup in February for knee surgery he was wearing those ratty old ripped up pants… Read More →

Had some serious technical difficulties at the Rangers facility. Everybody else in the pressroom—dozens of people—could access RR, but I couldn’t … which is always helpful. So, now back at blog HQ, the Tortorella and player quotes from practice will be coming shortly. ————————- John Tortorella (who was at first… Read More →

Hey, John Tortorella quotes to follow shortly. Not much news today, other than next season beginning in Stockholm, and the Rangers signing Carl Hagelin and sending him to Connecticut (AHL), which still hasn’t been officially announced. Here’s some news, though: I think the Bi-annual Paul Mara/Boneheads Playoff Beard Contest Extravaganza,... Read More →

This from the NHL regarding the Oct. 7 and Oct. 8 games in Stockholm: Tickets for the two games in Stockholm will be on sale starting Thursday, April 14. More information on tickets is available here:http://www.ticnet.se. Tickets for the game in Berlin will go on sale Friday, April 15. More… Read More →

I don’t know what happened but a post on which I spent about an hour writing last night disappeared. It was supposed to go up at 7 a.m., and it no longer exists. Why The Face?! So no words of wisdom this morning (don’t think there would have been any… Read More →

Rangers-Capitals (Series A) Game 1: at D.C., Wednesday, 7:30. Game 2: at D.C., Friday, 7:30. Game 3: at MSG, Sunday, 3 p.m. Game 4: at MSG, Wednesday, April 20, 7 p.m. Game 5: at D.C., Saturday, April 23, 3 p.m. Game 6: at MSG, Monday, April 25, TBD. Game 7:... Read More →

Eastern Conference Rangers-Washington Buffalo-Philadelphia Montreal-Boston Tampa Bay-Pittsburgh Western Conference Chicago-Vancouver Los Angeles-San Jose Phoenix-Detroit Nashville-Anaheim Schedules to be released at 10 p.m. on NHL Network and NHL.com.