The Rangers added a new face on Thursday, as 26-year-old defenseman Erik Reitz was acquired from the Minnesota Wild in exchange for Dan Fritsche. Reitz, who has played 31 NHL games this season, was an outstanding major-junior player.

As the Rangers organization prepares to raise No. 9 to the rafters, Adam Graves is visiting the iamaranger.com message board right now. to answer questions from Blueshirts fans. Click on the link at right to join in the conversation with Adam.

OK, I don’t remember the actual question yesterday, but somebody asked me about my relationship with Muckler … and also somebody accused me of being a bit too cozy with Rangers coaches.

So here’s my favorite Muckler story: After I left the beat in 2002, Muck had long been gone and some idiot actually hired him [...]

With all the transition going on here yesterday we didn’t get much chance to discuss the disaster at the Igloo the night before … not that it’s worth re-hashing, and obviously you all hashed it as it was happening.

But I keep going back to what happened at the opening faceoff. Goddard and Colton Orr had [...]

Dealing from surplus to address a need, the Rangers Thursday shipped winger Dan Fritsche to the Minnesota Wild in exchange for defenseman Erik Reitz. Reitz, 26, a sixth-round pick in 2000, has 37 games of NHL experience.

In the sixth installment of our nine-video look back at Adam Graves’ career, former teammates and friends discuss Graves’ remarkable off-ice work.

n the fifth installment of our nine-video look back at Adam Graves’ career, Mark Messier and Stephane Matteau describe what Graves was like as a teammate.

Watch Adam Graves’ interview following the March 23, 1994, game in Edmonton when he scored his 50th and 51st goals of the 1993-94 season.

Four days before the Rangers organization raises No. 9 to the rafters, Adam Graves will visit the iamaranger.com message board to answer fans’ questions. Adam will be online on Friday at 1 p.m., but we invite you to get questions in ahead of time.

Hello New York and everywhere else, I’m Bird and you’re here at Hockeybird.com. I know, it’s been a while, let me explain. I admit to being a little stressed out about work. Times are tough all around and my wife had lost her gig…..I took a job at $15,000 per less than I was used to. The Rangers were not my priority. Add to that my general dis-interest in the team and that explains a bit the lack of posts. But wait….it gets better. The main box here used at the Hockeybird casa went dark. It wouldn’t boot at all. I had little time to deal with it so it sat, not working. After the “all-star” game I decided that I had to fix the computer (OK, my wife demanded it) and I called the Rodent for another voice on the issue. As usual he took great joy in pointing out that I knew the fix all along but was too stupid to remember. I, with great shame performed the task the Rodent so gleefully reminded me of…. and all is now well. For the box at least. Can someone explain to me why I payed so little attention to the Canes game? Explain why I shut off the game at 1-3 last night? As Henke yet again went down and got beat upstairs by Letang I no longer wanted to watch. Instead I played Tiger Woods ‘09 on the Wii. Me in Jacksonville FL, at the gravesite of Ronnie Van Zant (and Steve Gaines) on the anniversary of the ‘77 plane crash I’m not really in a great mood. Billy Powell, the keyboard player for Lynyrd Skynyrd passed away on Wednesday. Tragedy Strikes the band once again. I can still remember hearing about the plane crash in ‘77. I was on the air at WLIR when I heard about Allen passing. Leon died just a few years ago….and now Billy. Hell, Huey from the Outlaws who was playing in Skynyrd for ten years or so passed last year after reforming the Outlaws and recording an album. As a fan for so many years…..it’s a tough thing to have happen. I will always think of Mr. Powell as a nice guy who played his ass off every night. “…..Billy Powell on piano…..” You’ll be missed……Mr. Breeze. —-}- Bird…