Igor Shesterkin

Rangers: Season in Review

For only the fifth time in the franchise’s 94-year history, the New York Rangers have eclipsed 50 wins in a single season. It’s quite an accomplishment in and of itself, but it’s even more impressive when you look back on where the franchise was merely a year ago. The sudden upheaval and firings of Jeff […]

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, […]

David Pastrnak Hits Career Milestone in Return From Injury

Today, the Boston Bruins benefitted from being fully healthy during their 3-1 win over the New York Rangers. It is coming at the right moment as the B’s now have four regular-season games remaining before taking on their first-round matchup with the opponent still to be determined. The Bruins returned David Pastrnak, Hampus Lindholm, and […]

Rangers: Keys to Winning a Playoff Series

The New York Rangers have clinched the playoffs for the first time since 2017. As of the NHL’s current standings, the Blueshirts are expected to host the Pittsburgh Penguins in the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. There is no base formula for bringing home the Stanley Cup. However, there are many aspects of […]

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 […]

Toronto Maple Leafs: Auston Matthews Storybook Season

Auston Matthews has shown that he is determined to be at the top of the hockey world, and this season has proven that. Entering this season, he was coming off wrist surgery which caused him to miss the start of the season, and he still caught the league leaders in scoring. He was competing for […]

Opinion: Drury did his job, now Gallant has to do his

Moments after being traded to the Rangers, Justin Braun said that he hadn’t spoken to Chris Drury because the Rangers rookie GM was “still busy making trades.” Braun wasn’t lying. Drury pulled off a total of 4 trades Monday, and Braun was the first New York domino to fall before the flurry of trades that […]

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 […]

The Good, The Bad, and The Georgiev

The Good:The Rangers will make the playoffs barring an epic collapse during the final 25 games. The Bad:They can only win games in which Igor Shesterkin starts, and in a perfect world, the Rangers would like to not burn out the Russian phenom before his first NHL post-season appearance. The Georgiev:Alexandar Georgiev is being the […]