Derek Morris is thrilled to be out of Phoenix and in New York. Actually, thrilled doesn’t even begin to describe it. “I’m ecstatic!” he said… He’s so happy, he doesn’t even mind the fact that John Tortorella is going to…

John Tortorella got the size he wanted on the wing today when the Rangers traded for 6′6, 230-pound Nik Antropov, sending a second round draft pick to Toronto for the 29-year-old Kazakh. The Rangers also shed a pair of wingers…

The flood gates were ready to burst. But that was true the past two games too. One goal was not enough to do the trick — the second goal was the key to the Rangers’ 6-1 win over the Avalanche…

John Tortorella was happy with the way his team played last night depsite their loss. “I thought we did some really good things,” he said. “Our pressure was outstanding. Other than for a few minutes, we controlled the game. Other…

John Tortorella should consider himself lucky. In his first game as Ranger coach, he got to see who his Rangers really are, not an illusion of the type that sometimes accompanies a coaching change. Now he knows what he’s up…

With just 21 games left to turn around a team that has gone 2-7-3 in the last twelve, new head coach John Tortorella doesn’t have much time to figure out what he has to work with and what he wants…

Glen Sather has put himself squarely on the line by switching from the even-tempered defensive-minded Tom Renney to the fiery, attack-first John Tortorella in an attempt to save the team that he thought he shaped in the latter image over…

In 1959, Andy Bathgate became the first Ranger to ever score 40 goals and 80 points (in what was then a 70-game regular season), he won the Hart Trophy as the NHL’s most valuable player, he was a first-team All-Star,…

No sturm und drang today, just a nice effort all around, a 3-1 win with a power play goal accounting for the meaningful margin of victory. “This is step one,” said Lundqvist, finally rewarded with a win after having lost…

That’s what Montreal did — maybe the Rangers can try that too, seeing how much their top four veterans are underachieving, rather than risk a new coach tearing up the entire organization with a win-now mandate that we know from…