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 […]

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 […]

Number one in our Harts

Al Pacino began his career with a bang in the early 1970s and was nominated for either the Best Actor Oscar or Best Supporting Oscar in five of his first eight film roles. Since then, the legend has accumulated nine total nominations but has only won one naked-golden-man trophy. Yes, this is a piece about […]

Hart Memorial Trophy Odds: Winners and Losers

With every season, we see players at the top of their game, whether they have been there for a couple of seasons or this is their breakout year. These players get recognized for this hard work and top of the gameplay that they demonstrate over an 82-game season by winning the Hart Memorial Trophy, the […]

Opinion: Does it make sense to trade Georgiev

There have been a lot of rumors of teams interested in Georgiev, some of them being Vegas and Edmonton. However, does it makes sense for the Rangers to trade him? Maybe they should keep him with the jam-packed schedule coming up. Or what if Shesterkin goes down with an injury? Reasons why the Rangers shouldn’t […]

Another Slow Start for the Blueshirts

The Rangers got out to another one of their characteristically infuriating sloppy starts Thursday night at the Garden against the Detroit Red Wings. The first five minutes of the game looked like the Red Wings were playing NHL 22 on “Rookie” mode while the Rangers were stuck on the “Superstar” setting. It’s forgivable in any […]