Barring a surprising, late summer trade, it’s likely the Rangers will conclude the balance of their heavy offseason lifting by completing deals with their four arbitration-eligible RFAs. With roughly $12 million in cap space available (assuming Pavel Buchnevich is on the NHL roster and Tanner Glass demoted to Hartford), the club should have ample space […]

One of the harsh realities of being a fan of a professional sports team is that sometimes, that team, your team, lets one of your favorite players go. Coming off an underwhelming season and with little available cap space to improve the roster, the expectation was that the Rangers would be active in the trade […]

The New York Rangers have never been shy in their pursuit of big-name talent. Over the years, the club has acquired the likes of Marcel Dionne, Mark Messier, Eric Lindros, Jaromir Jagr and Rick Nash via trade while inking Guy Lafleur, Wayne Gretzky and Brad Richards as free agents. No name is too big for […]

Sometimes limited cap space can be a good thing. For the New York Rangers and GM Jeff Gorton, the current cap crunch will likely encourage the club to give opportunities to the organization’s young talent to earn roles with the team as opposed to trying to solve their deficiencies with money. Pavel Buchnevich is headed […]

It’s likely, perhaps even probable, that the New York Rangers will attempt to stave off an inevitable roster rebuild for at least another year and instead will retool in an effort to take another crack at winning an elusive Stanley Cup. With that goal in mind it’s also clear management must make improvements to its […]

The growth of the advanced stats crowd within the hockey community is undeniable. Terms like Corsi, PDO and Fenwick are used almost as regularly as goals, saves and assists. Player performances are now analyzed using a different set of metrics with traits formerly viewed as important now considered either a negative or unimportant reflection of […]

The NHL, like others in professional sports, tends to be a copycat league. Less successful clubs copy or borrow from a winning team’s formula. If the Rangers intend to borrow from a fellow member of the NHL fraternity this summer, they need look no further than the team that ended their Stanley Cup quest. The […]

It should come as little surprise following the Rangers frustrating five game playoff flame out that the team’s management and coaching staff were ready to make some changes to the club’s core. After back-to-back Eastern Conference Finals appearances and a berth in the 2014 Stanley Cup Final, the powers-that-be elected to give the core group […]

Two summers ago the New York Rangers made the decision to sign unrestricted free agent defenseman Dan Boyle to a two-year, $9MM deal. The same day, Anton Stralman left Manhattan to join the Tampa Bay Lightning with a five-year contract worth $22.5MM. Most who follow the team felt the two signings were linked, that the […]