Artemi Panarin

Rangers: End of Season Team Awards

The past 365 days for the Rangers have been a whirlwind. Once the regular season is officially over Friday night against the Washington Capitals, I’ll be releasing my season review. Until then, these are my team awards. While many categories have been set in stone, I’ll make up some of my own. MVP: Igor Shesterkin, […]

Top 5 Rangers Wildcards Heading into the Playoffs

Obviously, the Rangers will not be a wildcard team in this year’s iteration of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. The term wildcard is more loosely referring to either a player or group of players who have the ability to take this team to the next level. For the purposes of this list, stars like Panarin, Kreider, […]

New York Rangers: Who will it be in the first round?

Three weeks ago, it was a forgone conclusion that the New York Rangers and Pittsburgh Penguins would be facing each other in the first round of the playoffs next month. The only question was, who would hold home ice? Fast forward three weeks, and the Carolina Hurricanes, leaders of the Metropolitan Division for seemingly the […]

Report: Resilient Rangers Push Toward the Playoffs

It may sound like a bad Russell Crowe movie, but the last 240 minutes of regulation have been a whirlwind for the New York Rangers. So, what do we make of it? While they picked up 5 out of a possible 8 points during the four-game stretch to obtain, maintain, and gain a lead on […]

Report: Copp Making Most of First Look

Andrew Copp bet on himself last offseason when he turned down a rumored 5-year contract extension with an AAV in the neighborhood of 4 million. Whether he didn’t want to sign a long-term deal in Winnipeg, wanted more money, more of a commitment to top 6 minutes, or if he was still hurt from an […]

Opinion: Rangers Pass the Toughest Test of the Season

With the Monday afternoon trade deadline looming, the Rangers flew south for one of their toughest tests of the season with games against the Tampa Bay Lightning and Carolina Hurricanes in back-to-back nights. The result was two hard-fought wins that brings the Blueshirts season record to 40-18-5. Saturday night’s victory in Tampa made it a […]

Addition by Maturation

With an excessive amount of space to fit any player they desire under the cap, there has been some well-deserved ballyhoo about who the Rangers should, could, and would target ahead of the March 21st trade deadline. Names like Claude Giroux, Jakob Chychrun, Phil Kessel, Artturi Lekhonen, and Joe Pavelski are all floating around the […]

Rangers enter All-Star break at the perfect time, on a perfect note

The Florida Panthers averaged five goals per game during the entire month of January. Combine that with Adam Fox (reigning Norris Trophy winner) sitting out his third straight game due to an upper-body injury, and the deck was stacked against the Rangers Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden. The first period at MSG began on […]

Rangers First-Half Grading

Wow! What a first half of hockey! With the All-Star break upcoming, it gives us a chance to flashback at the first half of the New York Rangers season. There were so many bright spots for them and some unfortunate dark ones. This allows us a chance to grade each player’s first half and explain […]

Report: A Potential Chytil for DeBrusk trade on the table

There is a report that there is possible interest on both Rangers and Bruins sides for a swap 1 for 1 of Chytil and DeBrusk, both former first-round picks. Chytil, primarily center, is 22 left-handed shot and has four goals and seven assists in 38 games. However, some people are saying that Chytil is better […]