I always remember Esa Tikkanen calling them “the Punters” with that Tikkanese accent of his.

Just wanted to give you this blank slate. I’m at the second of three football games and not freezing (yet). Not bad out.

Keep me posted with some score updates later, OK?

Here are the pregame notes.

This might be a good time for the Rangers to, you know, get their stuff together. Yeah, they’re a little bit banged up, and yeah, they’ve had some decent performances lately, mixed in with some average to below-average to awful ones.

But they sure shouldn’t be tired, and with all the practice time afforded by a [...]

First of all, sorry for the late mention, but Jim Cerny is interviewing Eddie Giacomin at noon on Rangers Radio. You can hear it here.
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Steve Zipay reports from practice that Ales Kotalik is the newest autioner for the job of the Mairan Gaborik-Vinny Prospal left winger. Kotalik is naturally a right-winger.

No doubt that Enver Lisin [...]

… because this week has been brutal. First of all, it lacks hockey. I never understood the NHL having three teams in the New York area and having them so often all play the same night, then having two, three, four nights in a week when none of them plays. I don’t get it. I [...]

So we’re one-fourth (and a little bit) through the season, and what do we know? Not much yet. I wrote a column about this Rangers’ team and its first 21 games for The Journal News and LoHud.com today. You can read it here (I didn’t write the headline, and I don’t like it much). My [...]

More from Tortorella and some players:

Tortorella said that Gilroy was at fault for the third goal, and I don’t disagree. Redden was trapped in a bad spot, and also I thought Lundqvist might have made the save.

“It’s a little bit of inexperience on Gilly,” Tortorella said. “With Reds (Redden) there, Gilly’s got to pull out. [...]

From the NYR:
NEW YORK RANGERS POST-GAME NOTES AND QUOTES

November 17, 2009 – New York Rangers 2, Washington Capitals 4 (Game #21, Home #10)
Here are the official game summary and event summary.

• The Rangers were defeated by the Washington Capitals, 4-2, in front of a sold-out crowd (18,200) at Madison Square Garden to drop to [...]

You know what? The traffic’s pretty heavy here on the Festivus Blog today, so let’s just start with a clean thread for the game. Happy Festivus everyone!
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Repost from earlier: No Knuble tonight. No Semin, either. Behave yourselves. See yas in the comments.
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Oh, yeah. New poll on the right side of the blog.

As you’ve heard by now, Brendan Shanahan announced his retirement today. Here’s the story from NHL.com which also has his career stats, etc.

Yesterday we were talking about Hall of Famers in the comments section. Well, here’s one that won’t be debated. Wonder if he’ll pull a Favre around the trade deadline, though. Why not? I’m sure [...]

Good news. Bad news. Worse news.

The Rangers finally have a game tonight. It’s on Versus. Alex Ovechkin is expected to return from his “upper body strain.”

Could be worse than Versus. You could be in Edmonton where some games are on pay-per-view. Egads.
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Did you see that Markus Naslund un-retired to join his buddy Peter Forsberg playing [...]