Thoughts: 1) Happy Anniversary. You know the one. Nineteen years ago today. 2) I was thinking about another anniversary while watching the U.S. Open this week. Because 20 years ago this very week, U.S. Open week at Baltusrol, on Father’s Day Sunday, is when Mike Keenan made official his decision…. Read More →
First, I got an e-mail from a regular reader and long-time season ticket holder, George Albro about an fans rally being organized to protest the lockout. “The fans need to be heard and the season needs to be saved,” he said. The rally will be held Saturday, Dec. 1, 1:05… Read More →
How does an Englishman end up a Ranger fan? By UKRanger It all started around Christmas 1983 for me (around the time of the Maloneys, Greschner, Larouche, and Sandstrom and a first-round exit to the Flyers) not as a Ranger fan, but that was when my interest in American sports… Read More →
The Rangers First American Goaltender By George E. Grimm Pop Quiz time: Quick, who was the Rangers’ first American born goaltender? Fans of a certain age might guess 1960 Olympian Jack McCartan. That would be a good guess but it would also be wrong. McCartan played his first game as… Read More →
My Greatest Goalie Coach By Patrick Hoffman I didn’t learn how to stop a breakaway as a goaltender from the usual suspects. Was it from a goalie coach? No. Was it from summer hockey camps? Nope. Did my dad give me advice on the position? No way. I learned how to… Read More →
“Regular fans need not apply” By Rob Canone As I prepared to sit down and finally write my contribution to this blog, I stared at the screen for a long time. Being a life-long Ranger fan whose life, at some point each day, touches this team and city it was… Read More →
1952. Not exactly a banner year for the New York Rangers. Through the calendar year, the Blueshirts had more ties than wins. (You do remember ties, don’t you?) Sure, there were a couple of promising young players on the roster. Gump Worsley came up and would go on to win… Read More →
Game 73. Start of the Foxwoods Final 10 … ooops, sorry. The sixth of a seven-game homestand (3-2 so far). Ya boys have won one in a row and three of the last five, but are 3-5 in their last eight. The Winged Wheels are winless in five (0-4-1) and… Read More →
MSG Network has some hockey tonight. An all-new episode of “MSG Countdown,” MSG ranks Mike Richter’s 10 Greatest Moments, including his sprawling save against Gretzky in ’90 and the barehanded save against the Devils in ’97. The tip I got didn’t mention a certain Mr. Bure, but I imagine he… Read More →
Top O the Mornin’ to You! Don’t drive if you drink. Don’t. Do Not. We’re going to put this Twitter widget on the side of the page, where you’ll be able to read tweets from all our favorites. The question I have for you—in addition to what the byfuglien a… Read More →
This was like taking four punches. Ugh, ouch, ooof, ouch. The Rangers lost, Buffalo won, Montreal won, Carolina won. I will say this about Buffalo, with its three games in hand. I am not impressed based on that game last night. Except for the goalkeeper, that is. The Rangers need… Read More →
I was thinking that I could probably tell a story about every player from, say, the mid-1980s through 2001. And since the Rangers got the day off today (no practice), and don’t play again until Festivus, why not keep telling them? Well, this one I thought of last week, when… Read More →
