I know, I know. It’s a pet peeve of mine. The actual word is alternate captain. But in this case, the assistants will assist the captains in selecting the all-star rosters. Henrik Lundqvist was assigned to countryman Daniel Alfredsson’s tea…

Pre-game notes from the Rangers: NEW YORK RANGERS vs. BOSTON BRUINS Saturday, Jan. 21, 1:00 p.m. TD Garden – Boston, MA Rangers: 29-12-4 (62 pts) Bruins: 30-13-1 (61 pts) * All information through NHL games on Jan. 19 TODAY’S GAME: The Rang…

Was busy at post-practice today, working on Ryan Callahan story for the weekend. But did have time to get Brad Richards’ angry reaction to that pile of carcillo Matt Cooke’s slew foot, and John Tortorella talking about Boston tomorrow. Rich…

Thoughts: 1) I said it before and I’ll say it again (though I’m sure it won’t placate any of the NNs, or Chicken Littles, the “fire Torts” gang or plain old trolls. If losing three out of five is as bad as it gets, or even…

Courtesy of the NYR: NEW YORK RANGERS POST-GAME NOTES January 19, 2012 (Game 45, Home Game 21) Madison Square Garden – New York, New York  Team Notes: -        The Rangers were defeated by the Pittsburgh Penguins, 4-1, tonight at Madison …

Had some technical difficulties with my story, and with my recorder. So all I’ve got in the way of post-game audio is a short Dan Girardi/Henrik Lundqvist interview and the John Tortorella presser. John Tortorella: Dan Girardi/Henrik Lundqvist:

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The pre-game presser started off slowly, as many do, but it picked up … John Tortorella ended up talking about Brandon Prust (he’s had to ask him not to fight some players because Prust is too good a player), and about the power play. You m…

We had a major outage of all of our LoHud blogs last night, as I’m sure you are all aware. So apologies all around. Just glad it wasn’t my fault. I worried that maybe I pushed a wrong button or something, you know, being the techno wizard t…

Some good stuff from John Tortorella after practice today, including his picks for this weekend’s NFL games, his reaction to Jim Dolan’s visit in the coach’s press conference last night, some comments for a story I’m doing on Ry…

Bizarre night topped by Jim Dolan, all smiles and giggles, popping into John Tortorella’s press conference. I think what happened is that Dolan was in Tortorella’s office and the coach asked him if he wanted to do the press conference inste…