New York Rangers President and General Manager Glen Sather announced today that forward P.A. Parenteau has been assigned to the Hartford Wolf Pack of the American Hockey League (AHL).

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… and plenty aggravated about what happened to it. We may never know, so I just want to repeat the base of the message:

Susie Arth, the sports editor of The Journal News and LoHud.com, worked her last day Friday. I don’t know if I can rephras…

ST. PAUL, Minn. — What better way for the Rangers to snap out of their recent funk than face a team mired in an even deeper slump. Though the Rangers had won just once in their past six, the Wild entered last night losers in eight of their past 10. …

ST. PAUL, Minn. — What better way for the Rangers to snap out of their recent funk than face a team mired in an even deeper slump. Though the Rangers had won just once in their past six, the Wild entered last night losers in eight of their past 10. …

The Rangers can’t get Marian Gaborik back soon enough, but they have to be wondering where they can get him back soon at all. On a day Gaborik tested his injured right leg in the morning and said it just didn’t feel right, the Rangers put on an attack that took you back to 2008-09, barely getting a sniff over the first 40 minutes (save for Dane Byers, the Hartford call-up of the night and the latest to score his first NHL goal, and Artem Anisimov, his Hartford teammate last year) and having enough breakdowns from the red line on back to bury themselves. For one large swatch of the second period, it was stunning how easily Minnesota moved the puck and people through the middle of the ice.

The feel-good story on this night was Byers, two nights after the feel-good story on Long Island was P.A. Parenteau. Byers’ morning skate today was in Hartford, not in St. Paul, and he thought he was going to be facing the Hershey Bears, not the Minnesota Wild. Weather has been causing delays all day at Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport (trust me), so Byers’ plane didn’t touch down until 6:15 local time for a 7 p.m. start. He said when he was fully dressed in the room, he looked up at the clock and saw six minutes until faceoff. “Just in time,” he said.

He didn’t get a warm-up skate or anything, but he said “sometimes that’s a good thing, you don’t think about the game too much, you just put on your gear and play.” Credit Wade Redden and Byers with nice reads on the play, Redden to jump up and keep a puck alive in at the line and Byers, with the Minnesota defense leaving the zone, hanging around the net to steer the rebound past Nicklas Backstrom.

“We just did not think three people were going to be out of the lienup today. That was mind-boggling to me that we lost three people,” John Tortorella said afterward. “But (Byers) was going to be on the scorecard and as soon as he got here he was going to play.”

Beyond that? The Rangers get a goal from Marc Staal and, for a second straight game, nothing from any of the forwards who would be here if the team was completely healthy. With Christopher Higgins, Sean Avery and Gaborik all watching from the press box, Ryan Callahan, Chris Drury, Brandon Dubinsky - the dry spells go on, and not just for a lack of finish.

“It was just some of the turnovers on our part, the turnovers in the crucial times, in the last two minutes of the second period, beginning of the second period - that’s really what’s costing us,” said Vinny Prospal. “Our best goal-scorer is out of the lineup and so far the other guys haven’t been able to step into his absence.”

Thought Henrik Lundqvist was leaving some dicey rebounds in the first and then was outstanding in the second when this could have turned into a rout. Also thought Redden played very well. Meanwhile, both Minnesota and the Islanders get their first regulation wins of the season on visits from the Rangers, and what’s with the Wild? They’re 4-1 on home ice, 0-8 everywhere else.

Rangers head coach John Tortorella speaks to reporters following the Blueshirts’ 3-2 loss to the Minnesota Wild on Oct. 30, 2009, at St. Paul, Minn.

A second straight uninspired performance resulted in the Rangers’ second straight loss to a team near the bottom of the league standings, this time a 3-2 defeat to the Minnesota Wild Friday night in St. Paul.

I have no idea what the byfuglien happened tonight, either in the Rangers-Wild game or at this blog!

No idea.

I was at a football game, and when the game was over and I got to my laptop to write my story—poof—tonight’s post and al…

Hey guys, I thought you might want to know this. Today was the last day at The Journal News and LoHud.com for our sports editor, Susie Arth.

I’m sure a lot of you don’t know who that is, and I’m not going to get all involved in how …