Dave Rogers
Father, writer, photographer and lifelong New York Rangers fan. I have been covering the Rangers for the past year and a half and am a long-time veteran of team forums. I stand firmly against the Oxford comma.
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Rangers Staal a Buyout Candidate
May 30th, 2018 Marc Staal has spent his entire 12-year NHL career with the New York Rangers. One way or another that tenure with will have to end soon. Staal has three years remaining on a contract that pays him $5.7 million per season. The team is essentially paying Staal to be the lesser part of a top defensive pair. While the 31-year-old defender...
Which Rangers Benefit Most Under Quinn?
May 26th, 2018 With the hiring of David Quinn as head coach of the New York Rangers, the stage has been set to continue with the team’s rebuild. Make no mistake, Quinn is a development coach and was brought in to help rebuild the team’s core in hopes of a Stanley Cup victory somewhere down the road. As the team had grown stale on former coach Alain...
John Tavares: How I Became a New York Ranger
May 21st, 2018 What follows is a satirical account of John Tavares' experience during his upcoming contract negotiations. It is a work of fiction written in the first person as a spoof along the lines of a Players' Tribune article. My hope is that it will provide readers with an enjoyable bit of summer reading. You've been warned. Now, on with the...
Rangers Close to Signing Quinn as Head Coach
May 19th, 2018 The New York Rangers’ search for a head coach seems to be coming to an end. Boston University Terriers' (B.U.) head coach David Quinn is reported by multiple sources to be close to signing a five-year, $12 million contract to replace recently terminated Alain Vigneault. Quinn would become the 35th head coach in Blueshirts’...
Revisiting Rangers Trade Deadline Deals
May 14th, 2018 As the players dealt by the New York Rangers at the 2017-18 NHL trade deadline are eliminated from the playoffs, let’s take a look at the bang-for-the-buck that the other teams got in players and prospects. The Rangers dealt with three teams at the deadline, making four significant deals that sent five Rangers to playoff-bound...
Rangers' Draft Picks Could All Be Home Runs
May 9th, 2018 The New York Rangers have a slew of picks in the upcoming 2018 NHL Entry Draft. Three in the first round, two in each of the second and third rounds and then one each in rounds four, five and six. Those ten picks represent lottery tickets where the franchise’s future depends on their scouting, sure, but it also depends on a whole lot...
