Thanks for joining us for our inaugural Rangers chat, which will begin at 10:30 a.m. Bear in mind this is our first go-round so we ask that you be patient if there are any technical glitches.

Should you not be able to make it live, the archive of the chat will be available immediately afterwards.

So the great meeting of the minds today at Journal News/LoHud.com headquarters has led us to the decision to launch our first live chat tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. Tell your dog! Tell your dentist! Tell your dog’s dentist!

Actually, bear in mind that tomorrow’s chat will be something of a dry run, so while I don’t [...]

Yesterday it was the Rangers announcing they had signed on former Coyotes GM Mike Barnett as a special adviser to Glen Sather. Today I spoke to Frank Effinger, who was a Rangers pro scout until this month, but is now the Head Pro Scout for Phoenix (Frank, as I’ve written about before, also has the [...]

A number of you have contacted me asking when the Rangers’ next major move is, the thinking being there’s no way this is the roster they’re pushing forward with in September.

Well, you’re right in that the odds are decent something else will happen, especially when you consider that there are still some restricted free agents [...]

Update, 10:20 a.m.: As I reported here last week, the Rangers have added Mike Barnett to their staff. Barnett was Wayne Gretzky’s agent and then his GM in Phoenix before eventually being fired at the end of the 2007 season. His new title according to a release from the Rangers is Senior Adviser to Glen [...]

The blog is back greenside for a few days, so apologies are in order for the lack of posts.

That said, a quick word on who the Rangers captain will be in 2008-09.

The short answer: I don’t know. Shockingly, they don’t consult me on these matters, but the smart bet is on Chris Drury given his [...]

Paul Mara said he had opportunities from other teams to make more money. But the reason the defenseman accepted a one year deal for $1.95 million—which is roughly two thirds of what he made last season—is that there was no other place he wanted to be.

“There was interest from other teams but I wanted to [...]