Glen Sather announced today the Rangers signed Swedish left wing Markus Naslund and former Buffalo defenseman Dimitri Kalinin. Naslund got a two year deal, while Kalinin is on a one year plan.
Speaking on a conference call, Sather pointed out Naslund was part of the Blueshirt plan to play more with puck moving and wide [...]

On Jul. 2, 2007, the Rangers appeared to be a finished product, marked by the signings of both Chris Drury and Scott Gomez.
Now 365 days later, the Blueshirts are a work in progress, complete on defense, but still short on the forward end.
Taking care of blue line business on the first day of free agency, [...]

It’s easy to pass blame in the Rangers five game loss during the second round of the playoffs. Before Blueshirt Nation lines up at the NHL offices to lynch the referees, though, look at the home team first.

We are back in Newark for Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Quarterfinals.
Tonight the Rangers will look to continue to take advantage of mistakes, nut must forecheck the puck into the Devils zone more. New Jersey will try to take advantage of the young New York defense, while keeping with the gameplan that worked in [...]

Marek Malik is in. Paul Mara is out and Steve Valiquette is in goal.
Tom Renney said Valiquette plays for scheduling purposes, and Henrik Lundqvist will be in Jersey and Montreal.
But tonight the Rangers play the Flyers in a game that hopefully gets the competitive juices flowing as time is ticking away.
“Anything can help,” Renney said. “I [...]

Sean Avery will be with the Rangers on Thursday and Friday on their western trip, but according to Tom Renney he’s still a ways away from suiting up.
“[He'll] drive us bananas because he is itching to play,” Renney said. “He’s a few days away from serious contact and there’s still a little bit of pain [...]

Tom Renney apparently had enough and decided to shuffle the lines to something more conventional before the Rangers take on the Pens tonight.
Scott Gomez will now be centering Jaromir Jagr and Marty Straka with Chris Drury becoming Brendan Shanahan’s pivot. Brandon Dubinsky goes to line No. 3 with Ryan Callahan and Petr Prucha.
Now this makes [...]

After giving up four goals on nine shots, it’s time to give Steve Valiquette a chance.
Sure, he gave up Nik Antropov’s third goal in, but you can’t blame him on that. He came in cold and it was a power play.
But Lundqvist was terrible with rebound after rebound. It almost looked like Henrik and Joel [...]

Usually I have it scheduled out to not to miss a game, and I am at all the home game. But on the road at 1 p.m. in Ottawa, you must forgive me for being a bad beat writer. Well, not so bad since I was with my son. 
Anyway, the Blueshirts did win 5-2 with Brendan [...]

Sean Avery had wrist surgery today at 5:30 and the Islanders came in an hour and half later.
The Isles went to a six round shootout last night beating the now slumping Ottawa Senators and may be tired for the game at the Garden.
But these are the Rangers they are playing and the Isles tend to [...]