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Rangers short at pivot

It's going to be a stopgap lineup tonight at the Garden as the Rangers attempt to stop their slide against the Blue Jackets, that much is a given. The question, however, following yesterday's practice, in which Chris Higgins skated on the wing with ...

From LARRY BROOKS, New York Post,  23 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Chris Higgins (footballer),  Marian Gaborik,  Chris Drury,  John Tortorella,  Brandon Dubinsky

Shanahan's legacy greatest in Detroit

Brendan Shanahan turned the Red Wings into cham pions, took a group of players that had underachieved through a string of humiliating playoff upsets through the 1990s, none more humiliating that the 1996 defeat to Claude Lemieux and the hated Avalanche, ...

From LARRY BROOKS, New York Post,  22 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Brendan Shanahan,  Claude Lemieux,  Jaromir Jagr,  Donald Brashear,  Scott Stevens

Panthers hand Rangers 3rd straight defeat

Fire Renney! Oh right. The Rangers already did that last year. But then why is it almost impossible to tell the difference between the team that got defense-minded Tom Renney fired in February and the one now coached by offense-inclined John ...

From LARRY BROOKS, New York Post,  22 Nov 2009
Related Topics: New York Rangers,  Pittsburgh Panthers,  Tom Renney,  John Tortorella,  Marian Gaborik

Kotalik fails top-line tryout

So Ales Kotalik got one game at the coveted left wing spot on the first line with center Vinny Prospal and right wing Marian Gaborik. Next! "I don't think he can play on the top line; he was fighting it," coach John Tortorella said following Kotalik's ...

From LARRY BROOKS, New York Post,  22 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Ales Kotalik,  Marian Gaborik,  John Tortorella,  Pittsburgh Panthers,  Henrik Lundqvist

Drury takes first strides toward return to Rangers

Chris Drury never knew what (or who) hit him. "I thought I ran into my own guy because I knew I didn’t have the puck or wasn’t really near the puck," said Drury, who skated this morning for the first time since being concussed in Calgary on Nov. 7 by a ...

From LARRY BROOKS, New York Post,  21 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Pittsburgh Panthers,  Chris Drury,  Curtis Glencross,  Chris Neil,  General Motors

Rozsival must go

Let's face it. The Rangers are in trouble. Not only are they plagued by roster deficiencies that have been exacerbated by a couple of injuries with which the organization seems unequipped to cope, but nearly every team in the East that finished behind ...

From LARRY BROOKS, New York Post,  19 Nov 2009
Related Topics: New York Islanders,  John Tortorella,  Glen Sather,  Shaone Morrisonn,  Andy Sutton

Avery grinds with old gusto

John Tortorella wants the Rangers to grind, but the head coach simply doesn't have enough grinders in his lineup. Last night, though, featured the return of Sean Avery to the grinding persona that had been missing for much of the early season. Avery ...

From LARRY BROOKS, New York Post,  18 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Marian Gaborik,  John Tortorella,  Sean Avery,  New York Rangers,  Brandon Dubinsky

Rangers roughed up as offense fizzles

It has been more than a month since the Rangers have been able to win back-to-back games. It only seems that long since they scored more than two goals in a game or the power play operated with a flourish. The score of last night's match at the Garden ...

From LARRY BROOKS, New York Post,  18 Nov 2009
Related Topics: New York Rangers,  Chris Drury,  Brandon Dubinsky,  Ales Kotalik,  Marian Gaborik

Fleury sorry Rangers saw him at his worst

This was the final game of 1999-2000, the first of Theo Fleury's three seasons as a Ranger, and there he was, not on the ice, but a healthy scratch. And not only was he a healthy scratch for the first time in his career, but a healthy scratch as ...

From LARRY BROOKS, New York Post,  18 Nov 2009
Related Topics: John Tortorella,  General Motors,  Don Maloney,  John Muckler,  Neil Smith

Former Ranger Fleury plans charges against junior coach

Theo Fleury told The Post this afternoon that he will indeed file criminal charges against Graham James, the junior hockey coach who the one-time Ranger alleges sexually abused him as a teenager. “That decision has been made,” Fleury said during a ...

From LARRY BROOKS, New York Post,  17 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Graham James

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