By Jon Gabrielle, NY Rangers correspondent.
As the expression goes, “it could be getting late, early!”
With the Ranger’s 6-3 loss to the Devils last night at the Prudential Center in Newark, the Blueshirts find themselves fading rapidly and for more than one reason.
And although 9th place in the conference standings doesn’t appear that far of a [...]
With just under a month until the official NHL Trade Deadline, all of the speculations involving one of the biggest players on the market, Ilya Kovalchuk, came to a dramatic conclusions.
Olli Jokinen and Brandon Prust head to New York in exchange for Ales Kotalik and Christopher Higgins.
Olli Jokinen appears to be the next flickering Flame on his way to a new team.
Scott Gomez. The name rings a different bell for almost every hockey fan who hears it. New Jersey Devils fans hear “traitor”. New York Rangers fans hear “ epic failure”. Montreal Canadiens fans are still trying to figure out what they hear.
Perhaps a look at his career passages might shed some light.
I was there, a [...]
Jon Gabrielle, NY Rangers correspondent
My mom taught me that hate is a very strong word.
Suffice it to say then, as the NY Rangers continue to struggle on the scoreboard, that their head coach, John Tortorella, “dislikes” the media very much. Well, at least at this point in the season, or, at least until he gets [...]
By Jon Gabrielle, NY Rangers correspondent
If the New York Rangers thought Sunday night’s 6-2 whipping of the storied Montreal Canadiens franchise was good, then Tuesday night’s demolition of the lowly Tampa Bay Lightning was twice as nice!
The offensive explosion in back to back games, although unexpected, came at a perfect time. It propelled the Rangers into [...]
Who needs more goals? While the NHL is constantly tinkering with the rules ( far too much as far as this writer is concerned), this week fans in the tri-state area saw one of the best hockey games of the year, if not the decade, as the Devils and the Rangers went sixty-five minutes to [...]
By Jon Gabrielle, NY Rangers correspondent
The New Yor k Rangers, after reeling off points in 9 of their previous 10 games, going 7-1-2 during that span, have now lost three out of their last four.
And although they have earned four points during this latest stretch(1-1-2), an alarming trend continues to plague these Blueshirts. In the last 4 [...]
By Jon Gabrielle, The Hockey Writers
When the New York Rangers host the Dallas Stars tonight they will enter the game with a 6-2-3 record in their last eleven games. That’s 15 points earned out of a possible 22.
In the Eastern Conference where mediocre teams are bunched together fighting for the last two playoff spots, that’s an [...]
