To paraphrase the original Great One, Jackie Gleason, I had a very good time at the Garden last night watching the Rangers beat the Detroit Red Wings Grand Rapid Griffins 4-2.
After starting out as a bust, the evening got better as it went along. I always get excited when the Detroit Red Wings are in the [...]

A Ranger Russian Revolution has arrived!
Due to the aggressive play of the Bolshevik Boys, Grachev/Anisimov/Lisin, the Rangers took a two goal lead into the dressing room after the second period tonight, having thoroughly outplayed the Red Wings. They were attacking the net, dogging the puck relentlessly. While management may feel that Grachev is not ready, surely Anisimov and Lisin are keepers! That’s [...]

One of Rodney Dangerfield’s favorite jokes was that he got no respect, no respect at all.
Dangerfield used to joke that when he was a kid his mother had to tie a bone around his neck so the dog would play with him. Right now, many Ranger fans wish Glen “Dr. Evil” Sather would throw young Brandon Dubinsky a [...]

At the start of training camp last season, Tom Renney had seventy players to evaluate. 70. That’s a lot of bodies.  Tortorella won’t have to work that hard this year.The players will.  With 44 candidates trying to crack a possible 6/7 spots that need to be filled before the start of the regular season, the only hard decisions that have [...]

Last night the Rangers introduced four new members of the team at another Fan Forum for some season subscribers. The gregarious Dave Maloney introduced the fans to:
Marian Gaborik #10
Donald Brashear #87
Ales Kotalik  #12
Christopher Higgins #21
Gaborik was introduced first and got a huge round of applause. Brashear was next and got some applause and a loud smattering [...]

Come the end of August, I usually throw away my hockey hat in favor of my figure skater’s cap and head up to the Olympic Center  in Lake Placid for Adult Skate Week. Twice each year, in June and August, adult recreational and competitive figure skaters can improve their technique, exhibit their programs, test and have some [...]

Deepest sympathy to Jose and his wife Stephanie who lost their two month old baby boy. 
Keep them in your thoughts and prayers.

The fact that the Patrick Kane incident last week in Buffalo is going to a grand jury to see if an indictment is warranted is a waste of taxpayer money.
The media and the public over dramatize any hint of wrongdoing by people in the public eye. Lately sports figures, rightly or wrongly, have born the [...]

With absolutely nothing going on with the Rangers in particular and hockey in general, all of us diehards are jonesing for some Ranger news, any hockey news. The two biggest stories of the week are Nik Zherdev’s imminent signing with the KHL and two cousins raising Kane on a Saturday night in that armpit of the [...]

I have recently contributed an article to HockeyBarn and for lack of anything new on the Rnager front, I thought I’d post it here for everyone’s reading enjoyment. They  feature a Monday blogdown on a different topic every week. This week’s topic is Hockey ala Obama vs. Putin.
Y’all got anything better to do? I didn’t [...]