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Instant Analysis: Rangers Fire Head Coach John Tortorella

Breaking: The New York Rangers have fired head coach John Tortorella, following their second round loss to the Boston Bruins. After finishing first in the East in 2011-12, and then acquiring...
Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda: Only Questions Remain After the New York Rangers’ Failure

Warning: Please take what you are about to read in stride. Coming into this season, the New York Rangers were at the top of everyone’s power rankings. The pundits out there,...
Where There’s a Will: Rangers and Bruins Ready for a Second Round Bloodbath

What’s the old adage? Where there’s a will, there’s a way, right? The Bruins exerted their will in the third period of game 7 in the first round series against a...
Three Stars: All Time Greats of Central Division Teams

Welcome back to Peculiar Side of Sports. Every so often something in sports perplexes me, and I just hate not knowing something. So, I do what any normal, sane sports fan does –...
No Fire in the Belly: The Rangers’ Scoring Woes Continue

It should be a simple thing. Score goals. It’s the whole point of a hockey game. The Rangers found themselves with an unlikely lead in Game 1 of their best of...
Deja Vu All Over Again for the Rangers and Capitals

Let’s not beat around the bush here. This Rangers-Caps series of hockey-poker has a lot at stake for both teams. Tomorrow night will mark the beginning of the fourth playoff series...
The Plan Comes Together for the New York Rangers

On Wednesday, this writer was a skeptic. Rangers GM Glen Sather traded away what amounts to the team’s draft picks for the next two years for Ryane Clowe, a guy who...
Who Needs Rick Nash? Not the Blue Jackets!

First, let’s review. When this shortened season began, I (and many other hockey pundits) figured that the Columbus Blue Jackets didn’t stand a chance. Here are a couple of my own quotes: “If...
Bring Me the Head of John Tortorella!

The New York Rangers are in serious trouble. This squad has lost five out of the last six, being outscored 16 to 11. Two of those losses came at the hands...
Essential Hockey: Southeast is low but tight, New York Rangers are barely alive

We are about 18-20 games in for most teams and we are starting to really get a sense of who is who in the league right now. The surprising teams have...
Dead on Arrival: The Big Mick on the Rangers Power Play Woes

First, some sound bites: Tortorella at today’s optional skate, regarding the team’s malfunctioning power play: “We’re in a jam and we don’t have a lot of time to work ourselves out...
Communication Breakdown: The Big Mick on the New York Rangers

There was so much hope before the beginning of this season. The New York Rangers had Vezina winner Henrik Lundqvist in net, arguably the best corps of young defensemen in the...
Conference Call: East Versus West NHL Games That Will Be Missed

It was clear that in order to make a compressed 48 game NHL season work this year league organizers were going to be in tough. Their solution was simple: no games...
Crosby, Staals, Nash, or Young: Team Canada in 2014

The Summer Olympics have ended and as hockey fans we are now over two years removed from Vancouver 2010 and the “Golden Goal”. It is also less than two years away...
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Five Good and Five Bad things about the Lockout (Comedic Relief)

So as you may be well aware this little tweet that shook the hockey world: Since Gary Bettman decided to say the worst thing he could have...
Top Shelf Prospects: Columbus Blue Jackets

Welcome to today’s edition of “Top Shelf Prospects” a team by team look at the top prospects in the NHL. Today, as I continue my alphabetical journey through the NHL I...
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Rick Nash’s Impact on NY Rangers

My favorite acquisition of the summer is the move made by the New York Rangers. They obtained Rick Nash via trade with Columbus Blue Jackets. The Rick Nash saga started way...
Shane Doan Deserves to Play For a Cup Contender

So there it is, folks. The Rick Nash derby is over. The NY Rangers won, they got the man they have been after since the February trade deadline. So their team...
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Rick Nash: Will he stay or will he go?

NY Rangers, San Jose, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Detroit have all something in common. Rick Nash wants to be traded and they make up his short list of approved teams. So if...
NHL Offseason Musings: Player Movement Grinding to a Halt

Most analysts, including myself, guessed that following the signings of Zach Parise and Ryan Suter that after a slower than normal first 4 days of free agency, player movement in the...