Tom Castro
I'm a resident of the Chicago suburbs by way of White Plains, NY. I worked for the Associated Press sports department in New York City for 10 years before moving to Chicago in 2005, when the AP's then-internet division entered into a joint venture with STATS LLC. I worked for STATS for 11 years, until 2016. Since then I've covered the Rangers for Elite Sports NY, a hyper-local website, writing long form features and news stories. I'm very excited to be a part of The Hockey Writers.
Author's Posts
Rangers' Top 4 All Time
March 24th, 2020 The Franchise Four. The Mount Rushmore. Four players who tell the story of an organization. In this series I’ll be taking a look at the history of all 30 NHL squads. For criteria, I’m choosing one forward, defenceman, goaltender and a wild card from any position. An “Original Six” squad, there’s no shortage of sensational...
1st Overall NHL Draft Picks: Regrets From the Last Decade
March 21st, 2020 Second-guessing is always easy - especially when it comes to amateur drafts in professional sports. How could my team take this player over that one that year? Wasn't it as obvious at the time, when they were fresh-faced teenagers, as it is now, years later? The answer, of course, is generally no - even when it comes to the NHL...
Rangers' Success Showing How Much Work Remains
March 12th, 2020 Mika Zibanejad's five-goal masterpiece last week represented the high point of the New York Rangers' season, a breathtaking performance by one of the Blueshirts' stars which delivered a key victory in an unexpected 2019-20 playoff push. While Zibanejad's effort highlighted all that's right with the Rangers going forward, it also...
Re-Signing Fast Should Give Rangers Pause
March 4th, 2020 The New York Rangers' trade of defenseman Brady Skjei just before the 2020 NHL Trade Deadline was met with what seemed to be nearly as much fanfare as the long-term signing of star forward Chris Kreider hours earlier. The front office's ability to improve the club's salary cap situation by moving Skjei while not compromising the...
Skjei Trade Shows Rangers' Rebuild Working Perfectly
February 26th, 2020 2020 NHL trade deadline day was a truly wild one for the New York Rangers - it was one of the club's most eventful days in a long time, especially considering the head-spinning Monday contained only one trade by the Blueshirts. That move occurred on a day in which team president John Davidson started his address to the media by...
Rangers Probably Can't Keep Both Kreider and DeAngelo
February 21st, 2020 The physically-freakish, power-and-speed winger or the power-play sparkplug on the blue line? Unfortunately for the New York Rangers, that might be the choice they face over the next several days as the trade deadline bears down on them with key decisions needing to be made that will profoundly affect their rebuild. Related:...
