Rangers’ Jonathan Quick puts on show in win: ‘He’s one of one’
All the talk about what the Rangers will be without Igor Shesterkin should be revised to what the club will be without their elite goaltending tandem. That's because Jonathan Quick has covered most of the Blueshirts' mistakes since the club's star No. 1 goaltender, who once ruled them out of the Stanley Cup 10 years […]
Rangers, Jonathan Quick blank Red Wings despite not playing their best
Sometimes the team has to walk away with a victory. Well, on Saturday night, the Rangers took an empty net against the Red Wings for a 4-0 victory, and given how poorly the score came, the score could have been reversed, and maybe After a game that should have been reversed, it was successfully avoided. […]
Rangers’ Victor Mancini trying to ‘find the positives’
DETROIT — Victor Mancini caught the attention of the Rangers' coaching staff during the preseason with a series of jobs that pushed him to earn a spot in the lineup right out of training camp. His toughness in the possession game, his ability to escape with the puck, and his knack for taking opponents out […]
Rangers’ Buffalo wakeup call led to negative practice to elicit big response
The sun rose on the Rangers on Friday, but the world wasn't the end of last night's 6-1 loss to the Sabers at The Garden. But it wasn't entirely business as usual when the club reconvened at the world's most famous training facility. “It wasn't much different in practice where we worked on the missing […]
Zac Jones was the exception to the rule in Rangers’ ugly loss
Zach Jones was attacking with the puck on his stick. So in the Garden's 6-1 loss to the Sabers on Thursday, a game in which ennui was the club's most notable emotion, he became the Rangers' exception to the rule. Head coach Peter Laviolette noticed that. “I thought he was really good,” Laviolette said Friday […]
Rangers’ Reilly Smith, Vincent Trocheck rediscovering Panthers past
Head coach Peter Laviolette kept two wingers, Artemi Panarin and Alexis Lafreniere, when he reconfigured his top-nine line for Sunday's game against the Islanders. center/wingers Filip Chytil and Kaapo Kakko; And center/wingers Vincent Trocheck and Riley Smith… eight and nine years ago, when they were linemates at Florida. “I think knowing him on the ice […]
Rangers pull Igor Shesterkin during five-goal disaster vs. Sabres
Igor Shesterkin seems well-deserving of his impending status as the highest-paid goaltender in the NHL so far this season, but his performance in Thursday night's game against the Sabers at Madison Square was disappointing. No netminder could have bailed the Rangers out of their lackluster performance. garden. Head coach Peter Laviolette was forced to remove […]
Rangers’ listless ‘wake-up call’ was a long time coming
After the Sabers defeated the Blueshirts 6-1 on Thursday, the Rangers split six games and suffered lopsided losses against Florida, Washington, and now Buffalo, which is the longest in at least the past two weeks. It lasted for a while. In the garden. This is the current situation for the Rangers when it wasn't the […]
Rangers, Igor Shesterkin demolished by Sabres
Not much has happened in recent years. A loss of this magnitude had only befallen the Rangers once in their last 175 regular season games. That was until Thursday night, when the Blueshirts completely collapsed at Madison Square Garden. There, the home team lost 6-1 to the young Sabers, looking small and out of sorts. […]
Peter Laviolette plans to ride with his drastic Rangers line changes
The Rangers have enjoyed far more continuity in head coach Peter Laviolette's 109 games at the helm than they did in the 320 games he played in the four seasons before coming to New York. Not only has Laviolette made several intentional lineup changes over the years rather than in response to injuries, but the […]