If you expected there to be a different lineup two nights after one of the Rangers’ most complete games of the year, you haven’t been paying attention.

So that means Lauri Korpikoski and Dan Fritsche will be scratches, and Aaron Voros will skate on a line with Brandon Dubinsky and Nikolai Zherdev. Despite the Rangers’ success [...]

You wonder what it would be like if the Rangers played more games like last night.

Tom Renney would never tinker with his lines. There would be Wade Redden jerseys sprinkled around Madison Square Garden. People would come to this blog solely to hear me wax poetic on the beauty of the Rangers’ power play.

Yes, it’s [...]

So what have we learned class?

That if you stumble on the power play and the penalty kill, you will go nowhere in today’s NHL. If you can produce in those areas, you can gloss over plenty of mistakes.

Give the Rangers credit for outworking a Pittsburgh team that looked awfully disconnected. They weren’t perfect in the [...]

Is it a good or a bad sign that the Rangers are facing a team that is slumping even worse than them?

“They’re a good team. We’ve all been through these type of stretches before,” Tom Renney said. “It looks awful for a moment. But good teams come out of it and they did exactly that [...]

Whatever ails the Rangers of late, I’m fairly confident the problem cannot be traced to Lauri Korpikoski, who has instead been one of the Rangers’ few bright spots the past few weeks.

Tom Renney said Korpikoski hasn’t been a problem, either. But that still won’t prevent the coach from sitting the rookie down so that Aaron [...]

One of my New Year’s resolutions was to cut back on senseless Sean Avery rumormongering—what, that wasn’t one of yours?—but I couldn’t help but notice this Page Six item about Avery being spotted recently at a club in New York.

While that part was about as surprising as Tom Renney being seen watching opposing team video, [...]

Remember when a shorthanded goal qualified as an extraordinary circumstance in a hockey game?

As in, “Man, that game was so bad, they even allowed a shorthanded goal!”

Now it’s more like, “Yeah, typical Ranger game: missed chances, shorthanded goal. You know the drill. Hey, pass the potato chips.”

I don’t know how the explain it, other [...]

The last time the Rangers faced the Capitals, it was Washington that was saddled with a sick goaltender, with Jose Theodore forced to start in place of a flu-ridden Brent Johnson (Johnson did come in briefly after the Rangers pounced on Theodore to start, but he didn’t last—nor did the Rangers lead).

Now it’s Henrik Lundqvist [...]

I’ve never been a big believer in the whole “you get to start over at New Years” philosophy, mostly because it still feels like the middle of the year.

In high school, you still had the same teachers. In college, you still had the same roommate who left five-day-old cans of Natty Light stuck to the [...]

Thanks to reader Robert for passing along this comprehensive video compilation of the historic events yesterday at Wrigley. Compelling stuff. Here’s hoping the Rangers are indeed on deck for next year’s game at Yankee Stadium.

In other news, Zipay stole my thunder with his mid-season Rangers report card. He’s not far off from my own views, [...]