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.
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Rangers Ramp up Rebuild With Fox Deal
May 10th, 2019 Having practiced the patience he has preached for more than a year now, it appears that New York Rangers general manager Jeff Gorton is ready to put the pedal down on his club's rebuild - even if only in a measured way. For last week's acquisition of defense prospect Adam Fox from the Carolina Hurricanes for the club's second-round...
Rangers Set to Focus on Defensive Development
April 27th, 2019 The vast majority of the excitement over the New York Rangers' rebuild has been focused up front to this point. That would be on the forwards, a mostly raw but talented young group which offers cautious optimism that at least several future cornerstones could emerge in the coming seasons. The hope extends to a potential franchise...
Rangers Must Finally Decide on Kreider
April 19th, 2019 For the New York Rangers and Chris Kreider, decision time has just about arrived. General manager Jeff Gorton and the front office have at long last reached that point, the one at which they'll need to decide on how to proceed with their uber-talented forward whose promise has proved impossible to give up on, but who hasn't shown...
Rangers Gear up for Exciting, Pivotal Offseason
April 13th, 2019 The New York Rangers played it straight throughout a second consecutive playoff-less season, refusing to engage in a race to the bottom of the NHL for the better odds of a top draft pick. The resulting good karma, if you believe in that sort of thing like coach David Quinn and general manager Jeff Gorton do, has perhaps helped set them...
Rangers Can't Rely on Just Buchnevich & Strome
April 5th, 2019 So the New York Rangers have been carried offensively of late by...Pavel Buchnevich and Ryan Strome? Yes it's true, that duo was the driving force for the Blueshirts over the past month, with each player having delivered eight goals and four assists in March. The identical surges represent a somewhat unlikely rise for both - and a...
Rangers' Andersson Faces Career Crossroads
March 22nd, 2019 There won't be anything meaningless to the New York Rangers about the last nine games - especially for young center Lias Andersson. The Blueshirts won't be going to the playoffs for the second straight season - the first time since 2003-04 they'll miss the tournament in consecutive years. Yet, for young and older alike on this...