Let’s start by saying what everyone knows: this team is FLAWED. It was built with no real direction and couldn’t help but fail with this collection of spare parts, playing out of position, and expected to excel. The fact that this club even sniffed the postseason is testament to the incredible talent of franchise cornerstone Henrik Lundqvist and an inspired first season on Broadway by sniper extraordinaire Marian Gaborik. Even with the huge holes that management could never fill despite making in-season moves and numerous call-ups from the minors, the team still strung together an impressive first month of the season and an exciting last few weeks to make a serious run at the final playoff spot. This team is not in need of a total rebuild and there shouldn’t be close to the wholesale turnover we saw at the end of last season but there are a few moves that GM Glen Sather must make if this team is going to make it back to the playoffs and actually be expected to make noise once it does.
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The Rangers once again tried to ride a spectacular effort by Marian Gaborik to victory and once again were unsuccessful
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Here are the highlights from another terrible loss by the Rangers 8-3 to the Pittsburgh Penguins. This poor performance by
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The Rangers finally showed their fans what could be, if the team uses it’s forecheck, plays for sixty minutes and
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Here are some quick hits from Rangers universe: -Alex Ovechkin, who had been out with an injury, is expected to
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The Rangers played only their second overtime game of the season and participated in their first shootout of the year
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With the call up of Hartford Wolfpack forward P.A. Parenteau, the Rangers line combinations for today’s game against the Ottawa
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It’s very tough to find a silver lining in the disappointing performance of the Rangers during tonight’s 3-2 loss to
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Marian Gaborik, Sean Avery and Christopher Higgins will all be out of the lineup tonight vs. the Minnesota Wild. Gaborik
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Marian Gaborik will miss tonight’s game against the Islanders with an injury that the Rangers are still not specifying other
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