Peter Laviolette

Quick Pitt Stop: Rangers Defeat Penguins 1-0 Behind Stout Effort By Jonathan Quick

Whenever you enter a hockey season, there are many variables. Hopefully, with a veteran team or core, you have a few certainties, those stalwarts or rocks you can always rely on. Indeed, for the Rangers, Igor Shesterkin was one of those examples. However, there is also hope that you receive support from places you never […]

Rangers’ Lafreniere Looks Like a Different Player This Season

Going into this season, there was a lot of pressure put on New York Rangers forward Alexis Lafreniere. Since being drafted as the first overall pick in the 2020 NHL Entry Draft, Lafreniere, 22, had yet to truly live up to the expectations placed on him. Sure, he showed flashes of brilliance in his first […]

Gustafsson Off to Great Start for the Blueshirts

Since Chris Drury became the New York Rangers general manager, he has made a few underrated moves that have helped his hockey club. Two examples were ones that he made over the summer. The first was when he signed goaltender Jonathan Quick to a one-year deal worth $925,000. As of this writing (Wednesday night, November […]

Quick Proving Naysayers Wrong on Broadway

Going into the regular season, myself and many New York Rangers fans alike were worried about goaltender Jonathan Quick. Quick, 37, was coming off a preseason in which he did not play very well. Yes, the games obviously did not matter or anything like that, but the fact that he looked uncomfortable and was not […]

Rangers To Try and Survive Without Fox For Next Few Weeks

With the New York Rangers off to an 8-2 start, one would figure that all is good in their world, right? Unfortunately for the team and their fans, that assumption would be wrong. On Friday, November 3rd, the club found out that they will be without not only their best defenseman but one of their […]

NY Rangers 11/4 Recap – The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (Injuries)

After a busy week on the road the NY Rangers find themselves in a defensive bout Thursday night against the reigning Metro Division winners, the Carolina Hurricanes. This matchup was thought to be the first real test of the Rangers’ capabilities since their 5-0 western swing against some of the furthest teams from their Madison […]

High-Five! NY Rangers Beat Winnipeg 3-2 In OT To Secure Franchise-Best 5-0 Road Trip

When the NY Rangers hired Peter Laviolette in the offseason, despite his pedigree, there were questions about whether this move would have the desired positive impact on this team. The early returns on that question are a resounding YES, as the Rangers defeated the Winnipeg Jets 3-2 in OT to complete a historic 5-0 road […]

Artemi Panarin in a New York Rangers jersey

Panarin’s New Shoot-First Mentality Helping Blueshirts In A Big Way

While the New York Rangers record of 3-2 might be a bit disappointing considering the quality of opponents they have played so far, there has been one player on the team that has dominated each and every game so far. That player is Artemi Panarin. Panarin, 31, currently (As of Monday, October 23rd) leads the team with […]

NYR: Evaluating the Forward Line Combos

Since the last game of the pre-season, it’s been clear what lines Head Coach Peter Laviolette would be rolling with going into the regular season. Let’s take a look at each of the line combos, who specifically has exceeded expectations, and who has left more to be desired in the New York Rangers’ first few […]

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Shesterkin Continues to Show How Valuable He Is to the Blueshirts’ Success

It may be early on in the 2023-24 NHL campaign, but the New York Rangers do not look bad under new head coach Peter Laviolette. As of this writing (Tuesday, October 17th), the team is 2-1, thanks to wins over the Buffalo Sabres and Arizona Coyotes. They should really be 3-0, but they dropped a game […]