Welcome to New York Sean, Nik and Derek.

Each of them had a hand in that impressive 4-3 win over the top team in the NHL, the Boston Bruins. But no one was getting cocky about the win. That doesn’t fall into the “right kind of arrogance” attitude being cultivated by new coach John Tortorella.

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“It felt [...]

There were plenty of chants for Sean Avery last Thursday at Nassau Coliseum, but none of them were very friendly. Now he’s returning to Madison Square Garden, where he says he feels at home. We’ll hear if the Rangers fans show him they feel the same way.

Since the game will be on NBC, this litmus [...]

Couple of reasons why the Bruins game matters.

The Rangers have won their last two against teams that weren’t really good barometers. After such a long drought, being able to actually score again was a good sign, but the Bruins represent the kind of challenge John Tortorella said he welcomes.

“I think it’s a good time for [...]

Torn labrum in the hip? Michal Rozsival is one player who can relate to Alex Rodriguez and the decision he faces on whether to have surgery for the injury. The Rangers defenseman played with the issue last season and had surgery in the offseason.

“I’m not really into baseball,” Rozsival said. “I’m pretty sure he’ll be [...]

I know you all are perfectly capable of picking out the pertinent stats from tonight’s 4-2 win over the Islanders on the Island, but I just can’t help myself.

The Rangers had the main offensive players scoring again—Nikolai Zherdev, Markus Naslund, Scott Gomez and Chris Drury. Two goals were on the power play. And the team [...]

You can expect to see the three new Rangers—Nik Antropov, Sean Avery and Derek Morris—on the ice tonight when the Rangers play the Isles. I thought it was a little odd that coach John Tortorella wasn’t out there for the optional practice today, since he’ll be playing them sight unseen tonight, but some of the [...]

You have to love John Tortorella’s honesty.

“The regular season stinks,” Tortorella said. “It gets boring and this is the time of year where now the lights at the end of the tunnel, the playoffs are right there and we got less than a quarter. This is the fun time because its a dogfight every night [...]

Sean Avery already owes Henrik Lundqvist dinner.

At the end of practice, the two had a shootout (that’s it in the pic) with a meal as the wager. The newly re-Rangered Avery needed to make just two goals to win it, but he only got one.

“It’s fun to see him again,” Lundqvist said. “A lot of [...]

Ryan Callahan, Nikolai Zherdev, Petr Prucha, Scott Gomez, Chris Drury and Markus Naslund all scored tonight as the Rangers new aggresive style of play finally broke the dam.

Between that and the five minutes of non-stop fighting, the fans at Madison Square Garden gave the team a standing ovation at the end of the game.

Here is [...]

Tonight the Rangers host Colorado, and the team had a practice this morning in Greenburgh. John Tortorella worked with some new lines, although in typical Torts fashion he would not confirm that this is the lineup for tonight’s game. He reiterated that he liked Chris Drury and Brandon Dubinsky together, however.

Lines:

Naslund, Gomez and Zherdev; Dubinsky, [...]