B R O A D W A Y***B L U E S H I R T S

Bathgate66

well, chalk one up for the fishsticks. It was bound to happen sooner or later- both them not winning yet, & us not losing yet. :rolleyes:

Hey tommorow Night for anyone interested- on MSG Network- The Boomer Esiason Show ( we all know he is a HUGE NY Ranger fan ) has a full season preview , interviews, & Sam Rosen joins him in studio . Should be good.


wow has Colton Orr come a long way :eek:......., and an honorable mention for Lari Kiprokowski ( i know i most likely misspelled that )

Bathgate66

http://www.nhl.com/news/2006/09/282408.html


Jagr and injured left shoulder cleared for practice


NEW YORK (AP) -Rangers forward Jaromir Jagr has been cleared to practice for the first time since undergoing surgery on his dislocated left shoulder nearly five months ago.

"We got a very good report from the doctor," said smiling New York coach Tom Renney after the Rangers lost 5-2 to the New York Islanders in a preseason game Monday night. "He is ready for a full practice and everything that is involved with that."

When pressed on whether that included contact drills, Renney repeated that the star forward can participate in all forms of practice.

When Jagr might be able to play in a game will be determined by Renney and the rest of the coaching staff. Jagr will need to build up his endurance and practice time before taking the next step.

"He is cleared to practice, and then it is up to me," Renney said of Jagr, who set team records last season with 54 goals and 123 points. "He's got to practice."

At the start of training camp, Renney indicated it was doubtful that Jagr would play in any exhibition games before the Oct. 5 season opener against Washington. But Monday, Renney said he hopes to get last season's MVP runner-up into the lineup before then.

"I'd like to," he said. "We'll train here the next few days and we'll see where that takes us."

New York is scheduled to face Boston at home Wednesday, play at the Islanders on Friday, and visit Boston on Saturday to close out its preseason.

Jagr has been on the shelf since being injured in New York's playoff-opening loss to New Jersey last season. He missed one game and then returned for Game 3, but was largely ineffective after finishing second in the NHL in goals and points.

Less than one minute into the final game of New Jersey's sweep, Jagr was felled by a check from Devils defenseman Brad Lukowich and was knocked out for good.

The 34-year-old right winger had surgery nine days later on May 8. He was expected to be ready to go at the start of training camp on Sept. 15, but the Rangers took a cautious approach and kept him out of team scrimmages and games.

NY PJ1

that's great news!!! it was great to be back at MSG last night
the smell of the ice and hotdogs is like none-other !!!!=) lol

p.s. we need a point man on the PP and his name is not matt cullen





LET'S GO RANGER'S!!!

NY PJ1

hossa given a spot on the roster,,, wtf ...this guy better step the fuck up

i realize they like him on the PK,, but he has got to do more on offense

when he gets hot ,,he;s awesome , unfortunately its only 6-10 games out of 82



LET'S GO RANGER'S!!!!!!!!!!

Bathgate66

so now Rozsival , and Ozolinsch are out .

What the hell is going on with Brian Leetch ?

Brian, please come to your senses , come out of hybernation , and contact Glen Sather --- please---, before its too late .

Bathgate66

http://www.newsday.com/sports/hockey/islanders/ny-spisles254906322sep25,0,964796.story?coll=ny-hockey-headlines


No Garden party
Ex-Ranger Poti will experience the rivalry from the opposite side
BY GREG LOGAN
Newsday Staff Writer

September 25, 2006


As the would-be replacement for beloved defenseman Brian Leetch, Tom Poti was never embraced by Rangers fans despite very respectable numbers during his three-plus seasons with the team.

But if they treated Poti unkindly at times last season as a Ranger, it's not hard to imagine the reaction tonight when he returns to Madison Square Garden for the first time as an Islander.

Although Poti generally tunes the fans out, he's looking forward to experiencing the rivalry from a different vantage point.

"It's always a game I look forward to playing," Poti said. "Rangers-Islanders games are the 'funnest' games we had all year. I'm sure this will be nothing different, just from the other side."

Poti said his free-agent signing with the Islanders " is good for me to get a fresh start." It's good, too, for the Islanders, who are trying to rebuild a defense that let them down last season.

They added veterans Sean Hill and Brendan Witt for their toughness and leadership, but they needed Poti for his offensive skills. He can man the point on the power play and jump into the attack to fit the style of new coach Ted Nolan.

"In college, I used to always get up with the play and trail the play," Poti said. "It's something I love to do, something I've been doing most of my career."

In the Islanders' two exhibition losses to Boston that concluded their training camp in Nova Scotia, the defense was disorganized. But Nolan said that will change with another week of practice.

Poti had a rough opener partly because he's adjusting to the far-ranging style of goaltender Rick DiPietro. But Poti stepped up his physical play in the rematch and delivered a goal in the final minute, when the Islanders had an extra man on the ice, to cut their deficit to one.

"Ricky likes to come out and play," Poti said of DiPietro. "I think that works to our advantage to have that third guy back there to help you out when you can't get to the puck. It's not going to be an instant-chemistry type of thing, but with time, I think it will work out well for everyone."

Bathgate66

http://www.nypost.com/sports/rangers/garden_hossa_rangers_larry_brooks.htm

:eek: :eek: :eek:


Darius Kasparaitis was in last night's lineup after receiving a tough-love message from Renney, who suspected the veteran defenseman had been coddling himself in his return from offseason shoulder and groin surgeries.

"I was still feeling pain in the abdominal area at the start of camp, so I was pacing myself to get ready for the start of the season," said Kasparaitis. "But Tom told me I had to pick it up and play with more intensity. ... I guess he was just trying to send the message that I have to work harder."

Said Renney: "Maybe there's a psychological barrier Darius has to push through. I told him that the helping hand he might be looking for is on the end of his own arm."

Bathgate66

http://www.nypost.com/sports/rangers/jagr_back_on_job_rangers_larry_brooks.htm


September 27, 2006 -- Ronald Reagan once played a character in the movies who asked, "Where's the rest of me?" The Rangers haven't had to ask that question this training camp.
For they and everyone else in the hockey universe have known that the rest of the Rangers was in the training room or on the ice by himself wearing No. 68.

It was only a practice session, but with nine days remaining before the season-opener at the Garden against the Caps, Jaromir Jagr for the first time was working with his teammates without medically mandated restrictions. He wasn't bumped hard, he wasn't bumped often, if at all, but he was part of it.

This represents a milestone for the 2006-07 Blueshirts, for while the Rangers have changed their look up front a bit and both want and need to become more reliant on a north-south game, it remains Jagr's team.

"I've been around the guys and in the locker room and in some of the practices, so I don't feel cut off, but it will be a good feeling to do everything," Jagr had said on Monday before the club physicians had examined his surgically repaired left shoulder and cleared him to go. "I never had a training camp like this before where I didn't play at least three or four [exhibition] games."

It's likely that Jagr will play in only Saturday's final preseason match at Boston, though there's a slim chance he might make his debut Friday night at the Coliseum against the Islanders.

"The conditioning is not there, and even though I have been skating twice a day, that's still not like games," Jagr said following yesterday's work. "You can only get conditioning by playing in games, so if I could play in both of those games, I'd like to."

Obviously no Ranger wants to deliver a blow to Jagr's shoulder that might re-injure the club's presumptive captain, but Jagr needs to take hits in order to learn how the shoulder is going to respond under duress. He's not yet confident in his ability to take a check.

"Of course I'm going to worry about it," he said. "It should be OK, but nothing is guaranteed. I don't want to go through the same situation, so that's just natural for me to feel that way. It's going to take time, and I have to get used to the feeling of getting hit.

"If you're unable to walk, the first day you can walk you're going to wonder how it's going to feel. You're not going to start running that day."

Coach Tom Renney will design drills in which Jagr can be tested so that he is able to enter the season with a free mind.

*

In assigning Al Montoya, Lauri Korpikoski, Dwight Helminen, Martin Richter and Lee Falardeau to the AHL Wolf Pack, the Blueshirts are carrying 16 forwards, 10 defensemen and three goaltenders. ... Brendan Shanahan and Michael Nylander both missed practice with groin issues.

larry.brooks@nypost.com

moster78

In other news, the Islanders are at my building at the moment, (right across the street from the Coliseum) doing a meet and greet. I think the featured attraction is Mr. 15 Year Contract, himself, Rick DiPietro. I'm tempted to go down there and start a "DiP Sucks" chant just for old time sake. I know I heard it at enough Isles-Rangers games in that crappy building across the street!

Bathgate66

moster78 wrote:

In other news, the Islanders are at my building at the moment, (right across the street from the Coliseum) doing a meet and greet. I think the featured attraction is Mr. 15 Year Contract, himself, Rick DiPietro. I'm tempted to go down there and start a "DiP Sucks" chant just for old time sake. I know I heard it at enough Isles-Rangers games in that crappy building across the street!

dont forget to sday hello to all the former NYRs

Dunham
Ferraro
Poti
Bouchard
Simon
York

moster78

Bathgate66 wrote:

dont forget to sday hello to all the former NYRs

Dunham
Ferraro
Poti
Bouchard
Simon
York

I think its just DiP and some other guy, can't remember his name from the signs that have been up around the building. Like I care anyway, I'd just go to heckle. Get a jump on the season, you know?

NY PJ1

moster78 wrote:

In other news, the Islanders are at my building at the moment, (right across the street from the Coliseum) doing a meet and greet. I think the featured attraction is Mr. 15 Year Contract, himself, Rick DiPietro. I'm tempted to go down there and start a "DiP Sucks" chant just for old time sake. I know I heard it at enough Isles-Rangers games in that crappy building across the street!

the new chant at msg for di p is 15/67 15/67 lol it was great

NY PJ1

king henrik seems to be in mid-season form ,lets start this season

i think we're gonna be real happy w/ this Hall kid ,,,goes right to the net and has awesome hands ..plus he has great size ,, 20-25 goals is not out of the question

Bathgate66

NY Post has overhauled their website.
Seems to take alot longer to get to the stories youre looking for, but oh well. Im sure as we get used to it, it will get better.

https://www.nypost.com/seven/09282006/sports/rangers/junior_achiever_rangers_larry_brooks.htm

JUNIOR ACHIEVER
RANGERS' TOUGH CHOICE ON STAAL
By LARRY BROOKS

The skate was on the other foot when Tom Renney coached the WHL Kamloops Blazers in 1991-92 and was able to ride Scott Niedermayer and Darryl Sydor to the Memorial Cup when the Devils and Kings, respectively, returned the then-teenaged defensemen to junior hockey.

But now that Renney makes his living coaching the Rangers, he has an entirely different perspective on the agreement between the NHL and CHL that mandates that 18- or 19-year-olds drafted out of juniors must be returned to their junior clubs if they don't make their NHL squads.

Of course Renney does, now that he has a personal stake in the development of 19-year-old defenseman Marc Staal, the 12th overall selection of the 2005 NHL Entry Draft who must be returned to his OHL Sudbury team and, thus, cannot be assigned to the AHL Wolf Pack if unable to stick with the Rangers.

"I'm not a big fan of that rule, quite frankly," Renney said before last night's 1-0 Garden exhibition victory over the Bruins. "Far be it for me to be critical of how we develop our players, but I find it hard to believe that when a player is ready, willing and able to challenge for a position on at least the American League level, we're not permitted to assign him to our AHL affiliate.

"I'm a big proponent of growing hockey players, enhancing the product and making it better for the long run, and I think that allowing Marc and other players in his situation to play in the AHL would be a good thing for the NHL, the players and the individual franchises."

Staal, who has played in one preseason match, did not dress last night. He is one of 10 defensemen on the Rangers roster.

There is no deadline confronting the Rangers. Staal can start the season in New York and be returned to the OHL at any time, but if he were to play in 10 games, 2006-07 would count as an NHL season on his contract and toward free agency and waiver eligibility.

"I want to give Marc an opportunity to show what he can do, but if he does go back, he'll be returning to a good program in Sudbury, playing for a good coach in Mike Foligno," Renney said. "I would rather see him be able to develop within our organization at Hartford if he isn't ready for the NHL, but that's an option that's unfortunately not available to us."

*

Ryan Hollweg played center last night. Renney's evaluation of his work in the middle likely will have an impact on whether the Rangers keep winger Nigel Dawes or center Brandon Dubinsky. . . . Henrik Lundqvist protected the victory with a pair of point-blank saves in the final seconds for his second shutout in as many preseason appearances.

larry.brooks@nypost.com


i think it sucks that they need to re-assign this kid ( and other prospects on other teams ) back to their minors and cant go to the AHL affiliate(s) . They will get better competition in the AHL ( wolfpack ) and its closer to the NHL level then the squirts. WTF ! ?


And how about Hollweg centering ? - i hope he doesnt lay off his physicality in a new centermans role. And again, its pretty safe to say that Colton Orr has solidified his roster spot - we need this guy every night .

NY PJ1

i know the staal situation is a cluster fuck ..stay here and not dress or go back to juniors where he is way better than anyone

either way his development is gonna suffer,,,which blows

and then if u go to juniors,,u cant be called up during the year?? if this is the case this really blows


yes we def. need orr in the lineup,,because u know every team is looking to run jagr especially the skanky fishsticks,,so he needs to play

Bathgate66

i know its only preseason and all,..but still,


it cannot be a good sign that our powerplay has floundered so miserably- even with out Jagr out there. Can he be the only factor in a successfulo powerplay ? that is definitely not a good sign - especially with a suspect shoulder .

Gary Carter

ah its only pre-season,they will be fine

rangers suck

NY PJ1

metsfan531941 wrote:

ah its only pre-season,they will be fine

rangers are the best

15/67 15/67

Bathgate66

http://www.nypost.com/seven/09292006/sports/rangers/rangers_continue_to_gear_up_rangers_pat_reichart.htm


RANGERS CONTINUE TO GEAR UP
By PAT REICHART
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September 29, 2006 -- The Rangers will enter the final weekend of the preseason with their lineup two players lighter.

Defenseman Daniel Girardi and rookie forward Greg Moore were both cut from the NHL roster yesterday and sent to Hartford of the AHL, in the first of what will likely be a number of roster moves made by the Blueshirts over the next few days.

Rangers coach Tom Renney had nothing but positive things to say of both Girardi and Moore after yesterday's practice. Each of the players, he said, made progress during training camp and could play roles for the Blueshirts in the future, though neither is expected to make a significant contribution this season.

As for players whose contributions must be significant for the Rangers to compete this year, any discussion must begin with the mention of Jaromir Jagr, who skated well in practice yesterday and could play against the Islanders in tonight's preseason contest.

"We'll see how he is in the morning," said Renney, who will likely play Jagr extensively during tomorrow's afternoon contest in Boston.

As for goaltender Kevin Weekes, who is nursing an injured groin, the prognosis is not as promising. Though he did skate during practice yesterday and said he felt "better," he also admitted he is "certainly not 100 percent" and that there is "not really" any timetable for his return.

Over the weekend, journeyman goaltender StephenValiquette should see some action, but will likely be cut before the start of the season. That, of course, hinges entirely on the health of Weekes' groin.

And while we're on the ever-so-pleasant topic of groin health, veteran Michael Nylander resumed skating in practice yesterday, centering a line of Brendan Shanahan and Jaromir Jagr. While Nylander promised his groin "felt better," his focus was squarely on the team's preseason scoring woes.

"Of course you'd like to score more," he admitted. "I think we've had chances." As for the still-developing Rangers power play unit, Nylander said, "I think it should be good . . . It's going to be very interesting."

After the set of games tonight and tomorrow, the Rangers will retreat to Lake George for a few days in preparation for the start of a new season. As for a preseason prediction, veteran defenseman Darius Kasparaitis offered the following: "I think our team is looking good, everyone is working hard. We learned from our mistakes last year - we know every game is huge."

Bathgate66

http://newyorkrangers.com/team/trainingcamp06/feature.asp?id=2299

includes 5 minutes of video from practice

nice new practice jerseys !

RANGERS TUNE UP FOR BUSY WEEKEND ON THE ROAD
9/28/2006

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With 30 players remaining in training camp and exactly one week left before opening night, the Rangers staged a vigorous practice at the Madison Square Garden Training Center on Thursday.

On Wednesday night at MSG, the Rangers blanked the Boston Bruins 1-0 behind 30 saves from Henrik Lundqvist. Two players who appeared in that game, defenseman Daniel Girardi and forward Greg Moore, were reassigned to Hartford on Thursday morning, while Francis Lessard, a forward, was added to the training camp roster in preparation for Friday night's preseason game against the Islanders at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum.

The Rangers have two preseason games remaining, including one on Saturday in Boston. Following the Boston game, the Rangers will travel to upstate New York to participate in three days of practices and team-building activities. Similar team-building exercises last year at West Point were a big hit with the players and coaches, and they played a key role in setting the tone for the Rangers' success in 2005-06.

Rangers head coach Tom Renney met with the media following Thursday's practice and said that Jaromir Jagr would make his preseason debut either Friday or Saturday. In addition, Renney said goaltender Kevin Weekes, who has been hampered by a strained groin, could also see action in one of the two games. Renney said he would like Weekes to get a full game in before the regular season opens.