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Four Games For Matt Rempe

03/12/2024 at 4:39pm EDT


Watch the hit below.

Video- How Many Games For Matt Rempe?

03/11/2024 at 9:51pm EDT

He actually raised his elbow to make head contact.

Jack Roslovic To The NYR

03/08/2024 at 2:57pm EST

Chad Ruhwedel To The Rangers From The Penguins

03/08/2024 at 12:14pm EST

NEW YORK, March 8, 2024 – New York Rangers President and General Manager Chris Drury announced today that the team has acquired defenseman Chad Ruhwedel from the Pittsburgh Penguins in exchange for a fourth-round pick in the 2027 NHL Draft.

Ruhwedel, 33, has collected one goal and three assists for four points in 47 games with the Penguins this season. On Pittsburgh, the 5-11, 191 pounder’s 75 hits rank tied for fourth and his 37 blocked shots rank tied for sixth. In addition, his 2:01 minutes of shorthanded time-on-ice per game is the highest of his career.

Alex Wennberg Now Belongs To The New York Rangers

03/06/2024 at 4:56pm EST

NEW YORK, March 6, 2024 – New York Rangers President and General Manager Chris Drury announced today that the team has acquired forward Alex Wennberg from the Seattle Kraken in exchange for the Rangers’ own second-round selection in the 2024 NHL Draft and a conditional fourth-round selection in the 2025 NHL Draft (originally belonging to Dallas).

Wennberg, 29, has tallied nine goals and 16 assists for 25 points in 60 games for the Kraken this season. Wennberg leads Seattle with four game-winning goals and his 65 blocked shots rank first among team forwards. He ranks seventh on the team in points.

New York Rangers Sign Jonathan Quick To A One-Year Extension

03/03/2024 at 11:47am EST

NEW YORK, March 3, 2024 – New York Rangers President and General Manager Chris Drury announced today that the team has agreed to terms with goaltender Jonathan Quick on a one-year contract extension.

Video- Sheldon Keefe Not Happy With The Rempe Hit

03/02/2024 at 10:56pm EST

Evening Line -Nick Fotiu

03/02/2024 at 9:56pm EST

...then-GM John Ferguson came up with the concept when Bossy came into the Garden with 49 goals and was aiming to become the first rookie in NHL history to hit the 50 mark. This was March 25, 1978.

“Fergy told me I was going to cover Bossy and first thing I did was go to St. Patrick’s Cathedral, lit a candle and said, ‘Please don’t make me look like a fool out there tonight,’ ” Staten Island’s favorite son told me.

“I lined up next to Bossy and said, ‘If you touch the puck tonight, I’m going to take this stick and shove it up your ass, you can get your 50th goal somewhere else, you’re not scoring tonight.’

“You know what?” asked the People’s Choice who, back in the day, would scale pucks into the Blue Seats at the conclusion of warmups. “I got a goal and an assist and he got nothing.”

-Nick Fotiu playing for the Rangers at the time. More on this and other topics from Larry Brooks of the New York Post. Topics like this...

Finally, I don’t know why there’s such concern over the fact the Jets have not been able to fill the building in Winnipeg. All they have to do is move to an arena the same size as the Coyotes did and they will pack the barn every night.

It'll Be All About The Playoffs For Artemi Panarin

03/01/2024 at 9:32am EST

from Larry Brooks of the New York Post,

Artemi Panarin — the best big-money free agent signing in franchise history and one of the three best in NHL history, with Zdeno Chara to Boston and Marian Hossa to Chicago — is having the best season of his career.

He is relentlessly driving play while making sweet music with his brother from another continent, Alexis Lafreniere and hardscrabble Vincent Trocheck in the middle. He is creating space for himself to shoot the puck at a higher and more accurate rate than ever before.

He has already established a personal best for goals in a season with 35 with 22 games remaining and his 82 points (35-47) leads the team by 26 (!!!) over Trocheck and Chris Kreider. He has been dazzling and responsible, a joy to watch and a joy with whom to interact.

But his Rangers legacy won’t be defined by this. Instead, it will be defined by his work in this year’s playoffs following a washout first-round against the Devils last year and an underwhelming performance the previous season in the club’s run to the 2022 conference finals.

It is going to be on him, and he knows it — the same way Rick Nash understood it last decade when, other than Henrik Lundqvist, he was the Rangers’ best player across his six-year tenure but is remembered most around these parts for scoring three goals on 83 shots during the 2014 charge to the Cup finals and 14 goals in 73 playoff games during his Broadway run.

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Rangers And Devils Going In Opposite Directions

02/22/2024 at 1:09pm EST

from Stan Fischler of The Hockey News,

Don't kid yourself; if you think New York Rangers-New York Islanders is a keen rivalry, believe The Maven when I tell you that The Battle Of The Hudson -- which resumes tonight at The Rock -- is equally intense.

As for this evening, the visiting Blueshirts will be aiming for their ninth straight victory and -- after Sunday's classic -- second consecutive W this week in the Garden State.

On the other side, Lindy Ruff's Devils are in a desperate mode otherwise defined as if-we-don't-make-the-playoffs-it'll-be-awfully-humbling.

Pre-season forecasts had New Jersey finishing second in the Met Division, one notch ahead of the Blueshirts who are running away with a likely first place finish.

While the Rangers -- with a respite here and there -- have breezed along with the breeze, the Devils have been braked in one unpleasant form or another from the get-go last October.

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Videos- The New York Rangers Come All The Way Back Against The New York Islanders

02/18/2024 at 7:00pm EST

via Sportsnet's YouTube page,

Watch as New York Rangers forwards Chris Kreider and Mika Zibanejad score two power-play goals, with the goaltender pulled, in the final five minutes of their Stadium Series game against the New York Islanders to help force overtime.

Then 10 seconds into OT, the Rangers score again...

Video- Blake Wheeler's Injury

02/17/2024 at 12:36am EST

from Mollie Walker of the New York Post,

So the Rangers will finish out the regular season without Blake Wheeler, who was placed on long-term injured reserve on Friday following a hair-raising fall in which his right leg bent in a way it isn’t supposed to.

It turned out to be as bad as it looked, but as The Post’s Larry Brooks first reported, a return during the playoffs hasn’t been entirely ruled out.

That will depend on Wheeler’s recovery timeline and how far the Rangers go in the playoffs, the latter of which will be directly dependent on what Rangers president and general manager Chris Drury does before the March 8 trade deadline now that acquiring a top-six right wing is of the utmost importance.

“He’s been amazing since he’s been here,” head coach Peter Laviolette said of Wheeler after the Rangers concluded their outdoor practice on Friday ahead of their Stadium Series matchup with the Islanders at MetLife Stadium on Sunday. “His presence. He comes in to work every day. Positive. Hardworking. You can see it right before even training camp started that he was in there early.

“He was committed to being a part of this team and making it successful. He did that, both in the room and on the ice. When you lose a veteran player like that with such an impact in the room, that’s tough to replace.”

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Filip Chytil Out For The Season

01/28/2024 at 4:39pm EST

from the NHL's website,

Filip Chytil is out the rest of the regular season for the New York Rangers with an upper-body injury.

The Rangers said the forward had a thorough evaluation after he was helped off the ice at Madison Square Garden on Friday, a setback from the injury that has kept him out of the lineup since early November.

"The organization's top priority throughout this process has been Filip's health and we will continue to support him in his recovery with an aim to return for the 2024-25 season," the team said in a statement.

Chytil went down during an optional morning skate before New York's 5-2 loss to the Vegas Golden Knights. Team trainers tended to Chytil, and he was assisted to his feet and off the ice by defenseman Zac Jones and forward Jake Leschyshyn.

Chytil is home in New York. He, Jones and Leschyshyn were the only Rangers skaters on the ice at the time.

"It's obviously tough," coach Peter Laviolette said after the game Friday. "He's an important piece to our team. He's a good young player for us, so it's tough to see that.”

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Video- Jacob Trouba Has A Meeting Today- Updated, 2 Games For Trouba

01/27/2024 at 11:26am EST

Updated 4:36pm,

NEW YORK (Jan. 27, 2024) – New York Rangers defenseman Jacob Trouba has been suspended for two games, without pay, for elbowing Vegas Golden Knights forward Pavel Dorofeyev during NHL Game No. 755 in New York on Friday, Jan. 26, the National Hockey League’s Department of Player Safety announced today.

The incident occurred at 18:08 of the second period.

Under the terms of the Collective Bargaining Agreement and, based on his average annual salary, Trouba will forfeit $83,333.34. The money goes to the Players’ Emergency Assistance Fund.

For a full explanation of the decision, complete with video, please click on the following link: https://www.nhl.com/video/topic/player-safety/trouba-suspended-two-games-6345725356112.

Short video is below.

Filip Chytil's Career Could Be In Jeopardy

01/27/2024 at 9:20am EST

from Larry Brooks of The New York Post,

Calamity on the Garden ice Friday morning may have created some clarity in the front office for the Rangers as the March 8 trade deadline approaches.

Because the question that has hovered over the season since Filip Chytil went down with a concussion suspected to be the fourth of his career might have been answered by 72 himself in a most unfortunate manner when the center went down to the ice during a sparsely attended morning skate, stayed down for at least five minutes and needed aid to get back on his feet and off the ice.

This, of course, was only Chytil’s second day skating with his teammates since he sustained the injury Nov. 2. The Blueshirts had talked about ramping him up for a return to the active roster following an arduous recovery period in which he returned to his native Czechia for support from friends and family in comfortable environs.

Everyone was excited for the popular and affable 24-year-old.

Now, there is concern for Chytil’s future quality of life after this setback. Again the question becomes whether Chytil will be able to resume his career and not when. We are back to references to Michael Sauer, the Rangers defenseman who retired at age 24 in the wake of sustaining multiple concussions.

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More Needed From Alexis Lafreniere

01/25/2024 at 8:56am EST

from Larry Brooks of the New York Post,

Regarding the Rangers, still first in the Metro but probably far from first in your heart these days.

1. If the combination of three goals on 83 shots strikes a chord in your memory palace, it should, for that represented Rick Nash’s stat line for the 2015 playoffs in which Big 61’s 3.6 shooting percentage was the lowest in NHL postseason history for forwards with at least 80 shots on net.

The circumstances are not as urgent and the consequences are hardly as dire, but nine years later, Alexis Lafreniere entered Tuesday’s match in San Jose having scored three goals on 83 shots over his previous 29 games before exiting the 3-2 overtime defeat with three goals on 84 shots in his previous 30 contests.

This is not an attempt to turn Lafreniere into a scapegoat for the Rangers’ 3-5-2, 5-7-2 and 11-11-2 descents into mediocrity and worse. But when a team gets next to no production from a bottom-six that has been compromised since Filip Chytil left the lineup on Nov. 2, it is incumbent upon his top-six to cash in its opportunities.

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Road Trip Ends Badly For The New York Rangers

01/24/2024 at 5:10am EST

from Mollie Walker of the New York Post,

The Rangers lost three of four games on their west-coast swing and were lucky to remain atop the Metropolitan Division standings.

It was rocky and rough, just like the mountains they flew through to get from city to city, and just like the last seven weeks have been.

The two-goal lead the Blueshirts blew en route to Tuesday night’s 3-2 overtime loss to the basement-dwelling Sharks, however, capped the last long trip of the season in the most disappointing fashion possible.

“We wanted to close this road trip out strong and didn’t do that,” Adam Fox said. “It’s definitely disappointing. No one’s going to be happy. Two more games here before the break, so got to turn it around and get some momentum there.”

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Game highlights are below.

Bad Play On Broadway

01/09/2024 at 9:34am EST

from Larry Brooks of the New York Post,

You could say this has been a long time coming, but this type of deficient performance has been a recurring theme for the last five weeks in which the Rangers have won eight of their last 16 (8-7-1) while losing by three or more goals five times.

So this 6-3 defeat Monday night at the Garden to a Canucks team that is the highest-scoring team in the league overall and at five-on-five while boasting the NHL’s best goal-differential at plus-53 was not a singular event for the squad that has gone 4-4-1 over the last nine contests and have seen its puffy playoff cushion slowly deflate.

There were too many turnovers in key areas — again. There were too many poor decisions with and without the puck — again. There were too many mistakes positionally — again. There were too many Grade A opportunities with which Igor Shesterkin was forced to contend — again.

Defensive-zone coverage and defensive play was reminiscent of the bad old days when Dave Karpa, Igor Ulanov manned the blue line. Well, maybe not that bad. On third thought, yes, maybe it was on this night on which Elias Pettersson and Nils Hoglander scored circus goals 1:14 apart late in the second period after the Blueshirts had come within 3-2.

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The New York Rangers May Be The Best Team In The NHL

12/24/2023 at 7:30am EST

from Larry Brooks of the New York Post,

This is not a perfect union. But there are no perfect teams in this NHL. The Rangers sometimes bend but they don’t often break. Now that the Artemi Panarin-Vincent Trocheck-Alexis Lafreniere unit has cooled, without a five-on-five goal over the past nine contests, the Kreider-Zibanejad-Blake Wheeler connection has taken the baton and run with it.

There is a long way to Tipperary, almost as long as it is to the start of the playoffs. An entire season essentially lays ahead. The winter grind takes its toll. Which is one way to say that it will be mighty interesting to see what the 37-year-old Wheeler has in his arsenal come April, May and June.

But if the winger maintains his legs, if the chemistry that appears to be developing among him and Zibanejad and Kreider flourishes, then the Blueshirts may not have to go to market for a right wing to play in that spot. If Wheeler can thrive under playoff conditions, the Rangers have the prototypical power winger to offset the best buds. And general manager Chris Drury can use his deadline resources elsewhere.

This is a can-do collection that is likely playing slightly over its skis. But there’s a grit there, exemplified by a kid like Will Cuylle or a veteran named Nick Bonino. The team is more than the collection of its parts.

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The New York Rangers Lose To Buffalo And Kaapo Kakko Injured

11/28/2023 at 12:58am EST

from Mollie Walker of The New York Post,

The Rangers have had a gusty wind soaring through their sails for weeks, but the Sabres slowed them down Monday night before another injury to a key player threatened the team’s buoyancy.

A 5-1 loss to a feisty Buffalo team — just the Rangers’ fourth defeat in regulation this season — was overshadowed by yet another significant injury when the Blueshirts lost Kaapo Kakko in the second period following an ugly and awkward fall on his left leg.

It was clear it wasn’t the Rangers’ night from puck drop, but the apparent severity of Kakko’s injury only appeared to lengthen the club’s journey toward the end of its near month-long injury battle....

Kakko exited late in the middle frame after a collision with Buffalo defenseman Erik Johnson swept his legs out from underneath him along the boards.

The Finnish wing immediately grabbed at his left knee and squirmed on the ice in apparent pain....

Head coach Peter Laviolette didn’t have an immediate update on Kakko after the loss, saying that the 22-year-old would be evaluated for a lower-body injury and they will know more on Tuesday.

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Video -Jacob Trouba Fined For High Sticking

11/25/2023 at 10:29pm EST

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EW YORK (Nov. 25, 2023) – New York Rangers defenseman Jacob Trouba has been fined $5,000, the maximum allowable under the Collective Bargaining Agreement, for high-sticking Boston Bruins forward Trent Frederic during NHL Game No. 308 in New York on Saturday, Nov. 25, the National Hockey League’s Department of Player Safety announced today.

The incident occurred at 2:20 of the second period.

The money goes to the Players’ Emergency Assistance Fund.

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Take Notice Of The New York Rangers

11/25/2023 at 7:16pm EST

from Molli Walker of the New York Post,

The Rangers did not view this battle with the Bruins as a statement victory.

That is because the Rangers’ entire body of work thus far has been an assertion in itself, one that was only reaffirmed by this 7-4 win over a heavyweight Boston team Saturday afternoon at Madison Square Garden, which lifted the club into first place in the NHL by points percentage.

Forget the Big Bad Bruins.

These are the Big Bad Blueshirts.

Perched on an 11-point lead in the Metropolitan Division, which is a larger differential than between the second-place Capitals and the last-place Blue Jackets, the Rangers have put the NHL on notice.

“I think our guys are going into games expecting to win,” head coach Peter Laviolette said after his team improved to a stunning 15-3-1 record on the season. “Expecting to play a certain way. If we do that, we can see the results.”

For all the arguments that can and have been made about the difficulty — or lack thereof — of the Rangers’ schedule 18 games into the season, there is no disputing what unfolded in Game No. 19 against a defensively sound Boston team.

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Game highlights are below.

Concussion Concern For Filip Chytil

11/17/2023 at 2:48am EST

from Larry Brooks of the New York Post,

It is two weeks since Filip Chytil left the Nov. 2 game against Carolina late in the second period with what is believed at least the fourth concussion of his young career and has not been back on the ice since suffering delayed effects of an early first-period collision that night with Jesper Fast.

There is concern for this 24-year-old who has been sidelined 10 different times in-season since 2018-19. This does not include his two-week absence from training camp with an unidentified upper-body injury. This does not incorporate the suspected broken cheekbone Chytil sustained while struck in the face with a stick during Team Czechia’s second game in this year’s World Championship tournament, the effects of which lingered deep into the summer, as the center told me the first day of camp.

We do not know whether Chytil is genetically predisposed to concussions. We do know from volumes of evidence that concussions begat concussions, with symptoms and recovery lengths increasing with each injury to the brain.

This last one did not occur because Chytil put himself in a vulnerable position on the ice. Indeed, he looked up, saw Fast in enough time so he was able to diminish the impact of the open-ice collision. No. 72 bounced right up and indeed played eight more shifts before exiting. Still, this.

There is concern for this personable and engaging 24-year-old about his future quality of life. That is the priority.</blockquote>

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