Don’t hold your breathe until Referees Stephane Auger and Dean Morton apologize to the entire Ranger organization for the bogus boarding penalty and game misconduct they assessed to Lauri Korpikowski this afternoon. Even though the league rescinded the misconduct, neither official will be sanctioned for their incompetence. That is not Colin Campbell’s way. In Campbell’s world, [...]

If you caste your eyes downward and re-read my entry of September 7th, “The Magnificent Seventy”, you can see my predictions as to which players invited to camp might be around after the last preseason game was played. I wasn’t too far off the mark:
Left Wing
Naslund, Dawes, Prucha, Korpikoski, Voros, Nahanahs
Center
Gomez, Drury, Dubinsky, Betts, Anisimov, Fritsche, Rissmiller, Nedved
Right Wing
Zherdev, [...]

Resigned - to give (oneself) over without resistance <resigned himself to his fate>
Re-signed - to sign again ; especially : to rehire (as an athlete) by means of a signed contract
The start of training camp has come and gone and, by his own words, Glen Sather should have eliminated Mats Sundin from consideration. But, Glen’s presumed dismissal of Mats [...]

According to Steve Zipay’s blog today, rumor has it that if Mats Sundin doesn’t declare his intention to Ranger management by Tuesday, Brendan Shanahan will most assuredly be back for another year. He will more then like be Captain of the Rangers. He was the de facto Captain regardless of Jagr having worn the C. While the HockeyRodent may have [...]

According to the New York Rangers website, seventy players have been invited to training camp. That might be a record. Last year there were forty players at camp. It’s a good thing they don’t hold training camp at the University of Vermont anymore. There probably aren’t enough hotels rooms to accommodate such a mass gathering in [...]

According to the New York Rangers website, seventy players have been invited to training camp. That might be a record. Last year there were forty players at camp. It’s a good thing they don’t hold training camp at the University of Vermont anymore. There probably aren’t enough hotels rooms to accommodate such a mass gathering in [...]

Forget about General Hospital and As the World Turns, hockey now has it’s own soap opera, “MVP”. Only Canada, the country that brought us a sitcom devoid of any socially redeeming values like “Trailer Park Boys”, could bring North America a rip off of the BBC series “Footballers Wives”. No major network in the US [...]

I have heard some people say they are going to boycott watching these Olympics because they are being held in China. There are many reasons why people are turning their backs on these Olympics. Some are angry about China’s record of human rights violations, particularly their policy on Tibet. Others dislike China because they are one [...]

This is the unanswered question regarding Brendan Shanahan’s bid to play a 22nd and final? season in the NHL. Shanahan will turn 40 on January 23, 2009.  What is behind his desire to continue to play? It can’t be the money. Shanahan has already stated he would take a much lower salary and play a reduced [...]

Apparently, the powers that be in the NHL front office don’t think we do. This fact was made abundantly clear to me when I perused the freshly released NHL schedule and sadly found that The Stanley Cup Champion Detroit Red Wings would not be coming to Madison Square Garden this season.
I quickly checked the Islanders [...]