Jaromir Jagr’s 2nd goal puts the Rangers up 3-0. Stanley Cup Playoffs, 2nd round, Game 4. May 1, 2008
Posted 10 days ago
Jaromir Jagr’s 2nd goal puts the Rangers up 3-0. Stanley Cup Playoffs, 2nd round, Game 4. May 1, 2008
Posted 133 days ago
The Blueshirt Bulletin with: Rangers Hab Another Comeback in Them
The game was certainly an interesting note to end the year on for the Rangers. Coming off a blowout of the Leafs the night before they came out strong but faded quite a bit in the second period. It is nice to see the team has a little fight and the ability to come back when down. That instinct and drive is something that hasn’t always been there in recent years.
Lets hope 2008 starts like 2007 has finished for the Rangers.
Posted 211 days ago
The NHL season is now in full swing — and though the ride has been a little bumpy the new season has brought some new or upgraded hockey web sites and game coverage.
Did I miss anything? Post your favorites in the comments.
Posted 221 days ago
Its déjà vu all over again.
The Rangers defenseman Michal Rozsival scores on the first shot on goal of the NHL season just 37 seconds into the game.
Last season Jaromir Jagr scored a goal on the first shot of the 2006-2007 season.
Not to be missed, off season acquisition Chris Drury getting his first point as a Ranger with an assist on the Rozy goal.
Its great to have hockey back.
Posted 341 days ago
Congratulations to the Anaheim Ducks for beating the Ottawa Senators 6-2 in game 5 of the finals to win the Stanley Cup.
I thought it was a tremendously fun series to watch from the sidelines. Even though Ottawa never seemed to be able to finish when they needed to the action was great, and for two teams that almost never play each other the familiarity and animosity built through the whole series. And the fans in both arenas totally into it for all 5 games.
Posted 601 days ago
Not DOM I, but Tie Domi.
Tie Domi set to announce retirement
The longtime Toronto Maple Leafs enforcer will officially make the announcement on Tuesday afternoon, a source told The Canadian Press.
Gonna miss him being in the league. He’ll always be one of my favorite Rangers even though he’s been one of /those/ Leafs for a decade. Always seemed to find his way into my FHL drafting too.
Posted 659 days ago
There’s a ton of hockey stuff one can talk about this off season… from management who seems intent on awarding big contract after big contract just a season out of a lockout, to trade rumors about where Leetch will end up or if they’ll ever be another Pavel Bure or Theo Fluery sighting in North America. But the story I didn’t want to let just go by was the news that a group including Dan Marino and Mark Cuban made a bid for the Pittsburgh Penguins which has been rejected by the team.
“We increased our offer significantly, and it was not accepted,” said Murstein, whose group has made it known they would like to keep the team in Pittsburgh. Cuban and Marino are both Pittsburgh-area natives.
That’s a damn shame. Not only does it mean a chance at another ownership group moving the team to Kansas City (is that really any better then Pittsburgh?), but I also think the highly vocal Cuban would have been great for the sport—even if his role would be most probably have been smaller then it is with the Mavs. I’d absolutely love to see someone like that tangle with Gary Bettman and Colin Campbell, or shine some light into the the madness that seems to be some NHL ownership (I’m looking right at you Mr. Wang).
Posted 671 days ago
Via new hockey blog On Frozen Pond comes word that the world’s oldest hockey stick will soon be put up for auction on eBay with proceeds going to charity.
Comes with its own custom 150lb glass display case—imagine the shipping!!!
Posted 687 days ago
That isn’t about the draft…
If you haven’t been up on some of pre-draft and during draft trades around the league here’s my quick take.
Demitra playing alongside Gaborik could turn out to be interesting.
The Toronto trade to get goalie Andrew Raycroft is an interesting one, but I think how some of their other roster issues flush out will be just as interesting if not more so.
I’m not all that surpised at the earlier deal moving Luongo although he seemed shocked by it. I had really expected him to wind up somewhere at the trade deadline but that obviously didn’t happen.
And then there’s Pronger.
It won’t be a boring off season for sure, though by the end of it I’m sure I’ll be sick of hearing the phrase “new NHL” by the end of it.
And if you want some more info on who actually got drafted yesterday check out Blueshirts Bulletin Liveblogging of the event (though he gets a bit crazy around 11:17pm).
A sampling of some recent photos, bookmarks and news stories I've flagged elsewhere with this tag.
The New Jersey state Supreme Court today dismissed a lawsuit filed by a woman injured by a ricocheting puck during the warm-up before a Trenton Titans' hockey game.
Remember when the Rangers played the Sabres in the playoffs last spring and, even though the New York TV market is about a dozen times larger, more people watched the series in Buffalo? (Look in the second item of the column I just linked to.) It's amazing but true: in every ga …
2 teams of 20 played for 241 continuous hours, raising $300,000 for pediatric cancer research A group of hockey players at an outdoor rink just east of Edmonton has finished the world's longest game, breaking a record they set twice before.
Goaltender Henrik Lundqvist will be a Ranger for the next six years.
Brian Leetch's teammates from his days with the Rangers love to tell the story of a game at Tampa Bay in 1999, watching Leetch block a shot by the hardest shooter in the league, Fredrik Modin.
The NHL is working with the Yankees' high command and representatives of the city to try to play a game at Yankee Stadium next winter. While there are plenty of logistical hurdles to clear, the principals are interested.
It's a fact of life that a National Hockey League team's most valuable PLAYER cannot be its coach. But if the vice was versa, the Islanders MVP would be a runaway -- TED NOLAN.
2007-08 Season National Hockey League (NHL) attendance on ESPN.com
Fifty years ago, despite an astonishing disability, Willie O'Ree joined the Boston Bruins and became the NHL's first black player, only to endure vicious slurs and see his dream end abruptly. Today, back in the game that made him who he is, can he change hockey once more?
It wasn't that long ago that you heard Bob Clarke say the biggest problem in hockey wasn't the game, but the players. They had lost respect for each other on the ice.
It wasn't that long ago that you heard Bob Clarke say the biggest problem in hockey wasn't the game, but the players. They had lost respect for each other on the ice.
It wasn't that long ago that you heard Bob Clarke say the biggest problem in hockey wasn't the game, but the players. They had lost respect for each other on the ice.
It wasn't that long ago that you heard Bob Clarke say the biggest problem in hockey wasn't the game, but the players. They had lost respect for each other on the ice.
It wasn't that long ago that you heard Bob Clarke say the biggest problem in hockey wasn't the game, but the players. They had lost respect for each other on the ice.
It wasn't that long ago that you heard Bob Clarke say the biggest problem in hockey wasn't the game, but the players. They had lost respect for each other on the ice.
It wasn't that long ago that you heard Bob Clarke say the biggest problem in hockey wasn't the game, but the players. They had lost respect for each other on the ice.
For its new-look schedule, the National Hockey League will be going to an old look.
NHL teams could be back to playing every other club in the league by next season. The board of governors from the 30 teams met Tuesday and moved closer to ditching the unbalanced schedule put it place after the lockout wiped out the 2004-05 season.
Winter, Buffalo and Penguins. It's a perfect combination for an outdoor NHL game.
In a billboard advertisement kicking off their 2007-08 ad campaign, the Dallas Stars took a swipe at the NBA's ref scandal with a sign that reads "The only thing our refs shave is the ice."
Russian superstar Alexei Cherepanov is out for the remainder of the Canada-Russia Super Series.
Russian superstar Alexei Cherepanov is out for the remainder of the Canada-Russia Super Series.
He plans to move off Long Island with his family after a dozen years in residence, probably to his native Boston area, and will begin appearing as an NHL studio analyst for NBC in January. Why TV?
Alexei Yashin has gone home.
Matt Cullen, the Ranger, was an enigma from start to finish. I wish I had a dollar for every time I remarked to my colleague, John Giannone, that "I expect Cullen to break out with goals in the next game."
Some blunders, you can predict long before they happen.
Hershey Bears forward Kip Brennan has been suspended for the remainder of the American Hockey League playoffs following an altercation with a fan during a game last week.
If hockey fans needed a reminder of how insignificant their sport is on the American landscape, they got it courtesy of NBC Saturday.
Amazing genes and a strong work ethic demanded by Sudbury coach Mike Foligno have helped Marc Staal of the Wolves win the Max Kaminsky Trophy as the OHL's most outstanding defenceman.
The NHL should take a page from the UFC when it comes to fighting, says in-the-spotlight Flyers enforcer Todd Fedoruk.
Mick McGeough once told an interviewer he looked forward to retiring so he could spend time raising horses. There are loads of NHL fans who think McGeough got an early start on stable work and does it every time he steps on the ice.
Garth named NHL Executive of the Year by Sports Illustrated. In this week's issue of Sports Illustrated, Islanders general manager Garth Snow is named the NHL's Executive of the Year.
The shift is still a blur for him, and, by his own admission, Brendan Shanahan is in new territory with the concussion he suffered last Saturday. But, he said he feels pretty good
Amid a report by a Pittsburgh radio station that said a new arena deal between the Penguins and the various levels of government (the state, the county and the city) has been reached, sources tell TSN "the deal is not yet done."
Finally, something seemed to be going right for the National Hockey League. Despite flagging attendance and abysmal television ratings, the league was headed into next week's midseason break on a wave of positive publicity.
Finally, something seemed to be going right for the National Hockey League. Despite flagging attendance and abysmal television ratings, the league was headed into next week's midseason break on a wave of positive publicity.
Forty minutes into the game, it couldn't get much worse, but then it started to get better.