Posts About "Artemi Panarin"
Islanders Hope to Get Back to Winning Ways Against Rangers in 2020-21
January 14th, 2021 For much of the past half-decade, the New York Islanders have had the edge over the New York Rangers. From 2015-2018, the Islanders dominated the head-to-head meetings, but that changed the past couple of seasons. The teams split their four matchups in 2018-19, and the Rangers won three of the four games last year. While all but one of...
Metropolitan Division Power Starting to Shift
November 28th, 2020 The Washington Capitals have won five consecutive Metropolitan Division titles. In 2014-15, the Capitals finished second to the New York Rangers. That is the definition of dominance. They have a Stanley Cup to show for it. The Pittsburgh Penguins have finished second or third in the Metro during the last five years. They did all of...
Rangers' 3 Best Contracts for 2020-21
November 13th, 2020 For the rebuilding New York Rangers, things haven't gotten too expensive just yet. Sure, the Blueshirts' payroll next season will be a bit tight, thanks in part to ugly buyouts and potential bonus payments to some of the club's promising young players on entry-level contracts. Yet, the salary-cap situation improves considerably the...
Rangers Have Multiple Options to Replace Fast
October 27th, 2020 After the excitement of selecting Alexis Lafreniere with the first pick of the 2020 NHL Draft, the New York Rangers lost three key veteran players in Henrik Lundqvist, Marc Staal and Jesper Fast. While Lundqvist and Staal are nearing the end of their careers, Fast is just 28 years old and coming off the best season of his career. While...
McDavid Deserves More Respect From Hockey Media
September 20th, 2020 The NHL announced the first tranche of its 2020-21 award winners from Sept. 6-13. We still have to wait until Sept. 21 to find out the rest of the winners, almost a month altogether. If you don’t remember what awards were already announced or who won them, don’t worry. You’re excused. After superbly handling the management of this...
8 Blue Jackets All-Time Points-Per-Game Leaders
September 15th, 2020 To win in today’s NHL, a team needs to score goals. Not only does a team need players who shoot, it needs the playmakers who get the puck to the shooter. Consider this: in the modern history of the NHL, only twice has a player scored three goals in a game without any assists on those goals. One of those unassisted hat tricks was by...
Blue Jackets' All-Time Goals-Per-Game Leaders
September 8th, 2020 To win in today's NHL, a team needs to score goals. And to score, they need players who can consistently put the puck past the opponents' goaltenders, game in and game out. In the 20-year history of the Columbus Blue Jackets, only seven players have averaged more than one goal every three games during their tenures with the team. Ever....
Rangers Will Pick Lafreniere, But What Problems Could That Cause?
August 29th, 2020 The New York Rangers are thrilled to have won the first-overall pick in the 2020 NHL Entry Draft. Right? Well, yes. Barring unforeseen circumstances (though this year is certainly the one for those), the Rangers won't hesitate at all to select left wing Alexis Lafreniere, the consensus best prospect in the draft whose game has been...
Rangers' 2019-20 Regular Season Report Card
August 24th, 2020 The New York Rangers season came to an abrupt halt twice in 2019-20, the first due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the second was at the hands of the Carolina Hurricanes. Despite the lackadaisical effort displayed in the Qualifying Round, the Rangers' rebuild appears to be nearing completion, as a competitive roster with formidable stars...
Blue Jackets: Revisiting the Artemi Panarin Trade
August 1st, 2020 Bread anyone? It’s been approximately 36 months since the Russian sensation and “Bread Man”, Artemi Panarin, was traded to the Columbus Blue Jackets in a move that sent shock waves across the National Hockey League. One year removed from claiming the Calder Memorial Trophy, awarded to the league’s best rookie, Panarin was on the...
Rangers News & Rumors: Panarin, Hamilton, Miller & More
July 27th, 2020 By this time next week, the New York Rangers and Carolina Hurricanes will be into their best-of-five play-in series. Training camp is all but over, rosters have been finalized, the Seattle Kraken has been released, and no one has any idea who is injured. Finally, we have some normalcy in this roller coaster of a season. As teams...
Top 5 Players in Rangers-Hurricanes Series
July 24th, 2020 The New York Rangers and Carolina Hurricanes are set to face-off in the Qualifying Round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs in a best-of-five series scheduled for Aug. 1. Without a doubt, it will be one of the most interesting series to follow in the early stages of the playoffs. With that being said, let's take a look at the best players to...
New York Rangers Season Review & Playoff Preview
July 20th, 2020 Slowly but surely, the qualifying round of the 2020 Stanley Cup Playoffs is approaching. On Aug. 1, the New York Rangers will take on the Carolina Hurricanes in a best-of-five series for a chance to play in the postseason. Related: Ottawa Senators - Revisiting the Zibanejad Trade It has been a while since the Rangers last played,...
