They were offensive, and I don’t mean that they offended. They played aggressively. They played tough and with passion. It obviously was a heckuva lot easier on the eyeballs

And I won’t mention that they still almost lost.

But the Rangers’ losing streak is over, and so, for now, is the goal drought after the 5-4 shootout [...]

The Rangers, as you know, have had a dreadful time scoring goals—a total of five in five straight losses, three in the last four games, including shutouts by two opponents’ backup goalies.

So how do you get off a skid like that?

“Just stay with it,” Rangers coach Tom Renney said before tonight’s game. “Most teams that [...]

I’m probably looking forward to seeing Alex Ovechkin more than you are. I mean, if you were an odds-maker, what kind of odds would you lay that Ovechkin might outscore the Rangers by himself tonight?

Anyway, I’m looking forward to it more because I’m scheduled to go to the game, and because while trying to do [...]

 He will clear waivers by noon Eastern time, and will be assigned to Hartford of the AHL, the Rangers’ affiliate, and soon, if not immediately be put on re-entry waivers. That’s when the Rangers will almost surely claim Sean Avery, unless somebody beneath them in the standings does it first.

I don’t see that happening, because [...]

New York to Dallas and back is a long, long way to go to get it handed to you.
Some thoughts after a just God-awful performance. I have an assignment, so this will probably be the only post today. Sorry about that. I imagine once you vent, though, you wouldn’t mind a break from your favorite [...]

You can read all about the Stars from their team web site here (if you like that rah-rah home-team stuff). And for those who don’t like it when I post something not about the Rangers, please skip this.

Back to the Rangers. You know where they stand.

To repeat, for those just joining us, looks like Henrik [...]

My bad. I forgot to put this up earlier. Sorry.

The Sunday, Feb. 15 game against the Flyers has been switched from a 3 p.m. start to 12:30 p.m. It’s a nationally televised game.

Jane’s going to practice today, to see if Renney’s “bag skate”—he took away the pucks and made them do sprints for half an [...]

In case you missed it way down on the comments of the previous post, there was a bit of a rumor … and I don’t know how many heard it at MSG tonight … that Philly was close to signing/trading for Sean Avery.

Also somewhere among those comments, I started to tell you about Jane McManus, [...]

Well, I just had my first access with Tom Renney since taking over the blog and we chatted about Petr Prucha’s situation.

Renney feels that Prucha — who, as we know is not afraid to play a physical game for a smallish player — wears down. And wears down significantly, to the point where it affects [...]

Does anybody remember late summer of 1991 when the whole history of the Rangers began to change?

Here’s the most ridiculous thing about all of what went down: Everybody was wringing their hands over whether the Rangers were going to have to give up Troy Mallette or Steven Rice and Louie DeBrusk as compensation for signing [...]