When the Rangers drafted 6-foot, 6-inch Hugh Jessiman 12th overall in 2003, he was immediately dubbed “Huge Specimen.” It wasn’t too much longer before Jessiman became known as “The Huge Mistake.” Jessiman wasn’t responsible for drafting himself…

The Rangers won their fourth straight game last night, 3-2 over the struggling Atlantic Thrashers, to improve their league-leading record to 10-2-1 and set a franchiserecord for best start ever. Once again, it was not as easy as it should…

At times it seems like asking Michal Rozsival to talk about the importance of shooting is like asking a third-grader to expound on the virtues of broccoli. He might know it’s good for him, but that doesn’t mean he’s going to do anything about it.

And so it was today with Rozsival, who despite his relatively [...]

The St. Louis Post Dispatch reports “The Blues have contacted the representative for free-agent forward Brendan Shanahan, but no offer had been made to the former fan favorite as of Thursday night.” Shanahan was though to be headed back to…

How hot are the NHL-leading New York Rangers right now? Well, consider that only 14 games into their season they are in position to register a second five-game winning streak if they can beat the Maple Leafs at Toronto’s Air Canada Centre  tonight.

Nikki Z and the Rangers are the best team in hockey. How often do we get to say that? One day soon I am going to write something on how teams rarely get the most bang from their buck from free agents, while making trades for good, young players more often has longer term, productive results. This hasn’t been more evident than what we’ve seen from Way Cool Zherdev. This kid has been absolutely fantastic, and without all the alleged problems we were warned about. He’s setting up plays, scoring fantastic goals, backchecking, and just hustling his booty off. As Rangerland poster Bleedin-Blue aptly put it, he’s “Kovalev without the suck”. And how exciting was it to see the Playstation line get together again and make things happen? Renney has NO EXCUSE not to keep Moose, Voltron, and Way Cool together. (How soon before we don’t refer to any players by their real names? We’re going to have to put a legend on the side menu so you know who we are talking about.) This game really shouldn’t have even been that close. If the Rangers would just convert on a 5-on-3 power play once in a while there wouldn’t have to be so much nail biting. How about we put Mara and Girardi out there instead of Rozy and Redden? It seems that the former two are able to hit the net and are willing to shoot, while the latter $11.5 million dollars worth of blueliners have been pretty futile. This power play situation is really the single glaring negative on what has been a thrilling start to the season thus far. It is the type of thing that catches up to teams eventually, and it NEEDS to be remedied soon. (Yes, even though they scored a PP goal last night.) - Tomorrow night they visit Toronto, where backup extraordinaire Stephen Valliquette has performed wonderfully. He’ll probably get the start, and Henrik will get four days rest before the Isles visit MSG on Tuesday. - If you watched the game last night, you know that the Rangers finally gave up on Hugh Jessiman. Unquestionably the biggest disappointment in his first round draft class, Hugh was just never going to make it here. He looks more like a tight end on skates than a power forward. I wish him luck, because based on everything I have heard he’s a good kid. That makes the fourth first round pick Glen Sather has made in these nine drafts that will never play for the Rangers. Goaltender Dan Blackburn suffered an injury that ended his NHL career, Alex Cherepanov, as you know, died tragically, Al Montoya was traded away for virtually nothing, and now Hugh was dealt to Nashville for future considerations. Lauri Korpikoski, drafted in 2004 in the first round after Montoya, has had a sniff here, but was deemed not quite ready. He, along with Marc Staal, Bobby Sanguinetti, and most recently Mike Del Zotto, remain the only first choice candidates to have a chance for a career here. - The Rangers are pulling away in the Eastern Conference. Sure, they’ve played two more games than any other team in the league, but they lead the East by six points. San Jose is second in the league with eighteen. - Way Cool, Jr. leads the NHL with a +11 rating, and Henrik Lundqvist leads all goaltenders with 8 wins. - The Rangers are the best team in the league defensively, with just a 1.92 goals against average. Their power play is ranked #26 in the league, while their penalty kill is ranked #2, with a 91.7% success rate. I’m looking more and more forward to each game. Tuesday night should be an interesting atmosphere in the Garden, because even though the Rangers/Islanders rivalry is a big deal around here, there’s no way to overlook the fact that it comes in a distant second to the election. Tomorrow night, Toronto. Bring it on. HDH…

On this Halloween, you have the right to be superstitious.

As in, “There’s no way they can keep this up.”

It’s probably true. At this rate, the Rangers would finish with 63 wins and 132 points, which I believe would be some sort of record* (*actually, the  wins would be one more than the record set by [...]

The flashes of brilliance have become streaks of the same, and the Rangers are along for the ride on the No. 13 express. For Nikolai Zherdev, with unmistakably immense talent, has become the go-to guy the Rangers look to when in trouble, as they…