By BRETT CYRGALIS This is an absolute shame. Tom Renney’s firing today was inevitable, as the team has consistently underachieved since the third week of the season and if nothing changed they were going to miss the playoffs. But what…

By BRETT CYRGALIS This is a plea to all Rangers fans. It’s a plea to realize how much impact you have on the game and how much impact a gang-up mentality within a fan base can affect the players. Specifically,…

By BRETT CYRGALIS There have been a lot of things done in an attempt to shake the Rangers from the doldrums they have entered (1-3-1 in their previous five) since starting the season 10-2-1. There have been roster moves. There…

By BRETT CYRGALIS After spraining his ankle and playing in just two of the first nine games this year, forward Patrick Rissmiller was waived by the Rangers today. Rissmiller, 29, signed a three-year, $3 million deal with the Rangers in…

By BRETT CYRGALIS Sean Avery returned to the Garden tonight, and guess what happened? All of that agitation, all of that tenacity and all of that passion that Avery brought to the ice every night as a New York Ranger,…

By BRETT CYRGALIS Probably the most telling trait of a great player in any sport is his ability to make those around him better. If Brandon Dubinsky did anything in the Rangers’ 4-2 win over the Blackhawks tonight, that was…

By BRETT CYRGALIS Let’s go ahead and get the writing of this word out of the way: perfect. There, I did it. The Ranges took all four possible points when the beat the Lightning in back-to-back games from Prague, Czech…

By BRETT CYRGALIS The Rangers opened the NHL season in fine fashion today when they beat the Lightning, 2-1, from the O2 Center in Prague, Czech Republic. After struggling to get the puck past Tampa Bay goalie Mike Smith all…

By BRETT CYRGALIS Just give the guy the ‘C’ already. If there was any dispute as to who should be wearing the title of captain on this Rangers team (and there was), it was answered today when Chris Drury brought…

By BRETT CYRGALIS Halfway through the first period today, while 12,000 people stood and pounded drums in the upper deck of the PostFinance Arena in Bern, Switzerland, I found myself in a weird situation: I was pulling for SC Bern…