December 7, 2024

Matt Rempe training with Chris Kreider amid quest for bigger Rangers role

You can measure Matt Rempe’s commitment to improve off of this sentence — “I’m going to stay right here and train with Kreids the rest of the summer”— and the tale of the tape might even exceed the 6-foot-8 š/₂ inches the 22-year-old winger stands. Because volunteering to train with Chris Kreider in Connecticut until […]

Rangers’ Filip Chytil returns from lengthy injury absence for Game 3 in stunning lineup twist

RALEIGH, N.C. — Igor Shesterkin led the Rangers out for Game 3 warmups of their second-round series against the Hurricanes, and there, right behind him, was Filip Chytil.  The Czech center stepped onto the ice under the white hues of the PNC Arena lights to compete in his first game since suffering what was believed […]

Rangers fast-tracked to current glory thanks to trio of GMs

Does anyone remember when the argument being advanced was that the Rangers were not ready for Artemi Panarin when they signed him, they were accelerating their rebuild too quickly, and oh by the way, much like all those Freddy movies, the message was coming from inside the house? There has been so much disillusionment and […]

Why the Rangers are not the Stanley Cup betting favorites

The New York Rangers won the Presidents’ Trophy. They have three more wins than any other team in the NHL this season. The Blueshirts will have home-ice advantage throughout the Stanley Cup Playoffs and they are the biggest favorites in Round 1, which begins Sunday at 3 p.m. against the Washington Capitals at MSG. That is a […]

Rangers’ slow starts becoming worrying trend with playoffs approaching

A worrying trend has emerged for the Rangers in recent weeks. They’ve repeatedly gotten off to slow starts, falling behind early before having to claw their way back. And in the vast majority of cases, they’ve relied on their stellar power play to bail them out and bring them back into games. Igor Shesterkin of […]

New Rangers, Igor Shesterkin come up big in win over Blues

The post-trade-deadline Rangers started off on the right foot as the club cracked the final 20 games of the regular season. They looked fast and shifty in a swift 4-0 win over the Blues on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden, where newly acquired forwards Jack Roslovic and Alex Wennberg played an integral role in […]

Rangers’ defensive depth aces stress-filled stretch

The circumstances were not particularly ideal for a listing Rangers team when Vegas’ Pavel Dorofeyev smashed his head into Jacob Trouba’s elbow off a late second-period faceoff at the Garden on Jan. 26. The captain, who was not penalized on the play, was issued a two-game suspension by the Department of Player Safety that sidelined […]

Astros vs. Rangers Live Stream: Where To Watch Rangers-Astros Game 7 Live Online For Free

Here we go! It all comes down to this. It’s win or go home as the Houston Astros host the Texas Rangers in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series. Nathan Eovaldi and the Rangers avoided elimination last night, defeating the Astros 9-2 to force a winner-take-all Game 7 matchup. The victor heads to […]

Rangers force Game 7 in ALCS as Astros lose at home again

All momentum was on the Houston Astros’ side after a ninth inning for the ages in Game 5, but the Texas Rangers didn’t hear a fat lady sing. The Rangers forced a Game 7 in the American League Championship Series on Sunday with a 9-2 win over Houston. It was the Astros who struck first […]

Rangers force Game 7 in New Jersey with win over Devils

Chris Kreider had another power-play goal and two assists as the New York Rangers beat the New Jersey Devils 5-2 on Saturday night to force a deciding Game 7 in their first-round series. Mika Zibanejad and Vladimir Tarasenko each had a goal and an assist for New York, which had totaled just two goals while […]

Rangers seize series control after physically dominating Devils

The Rangers seized control of this Game 2 early in the second period and never let go. They flashed the skill for which they are famous, but there was much more than that. Because trailing 1-0 off a first-period, power-play goal, the Blueshirts took over the old-fashioned playoff way. They banged, they forechecked, they outmuscled […]

Artemi Panarin’s four goals lead Rangers to win over elite Hurricanes

RALEIGH, N.C. — Maybe Vincent Trocheck can play with Artemi Panarin after all. Rangers head coach Gerard Gallant made a late second-period adjustment in his line combinations Saturday night by reuniting Chris Kreider and Mika Zibanejad while shifting Panarin back to Trocheck’s left side with his team trailing by a goal. After that, Panarin recorded […]

James Dolan lauds Rangers’ Stanley Cup chances: ‘Really cooking’

Somewhere in between addressing Madison Square Garden’s controversial use of facial recognition software, which has somehow spiraled into a threat to ban booze at the facility, Rangers owner James Dolan offered some high praise for his hockey team.  “The Rangers are really cooking,” he said on Fox 5’s “Good Day New York” on Thursday while […]

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