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

i hate these 2 and 3 pm start times in the middle of a saturday.

:rolleyes:


c'mon fellas.

from blueshirt bulletin:



The Rangers host Boston at the Garden today in a 2:00 matinee as NBC kicks off its season coverage of the NHL. Newly acquired center Jason Krog is expected to replace Adam Hall, Thomas Pöck is expected to play alongside Michal Rozsival while Darius Kasparaitis sits for the first time since he re-entered the line-up on December 7th, and the shaken up lines and defensive pairs that mounted that third period comeback attempt against Ottawa will start the game -- Straka centering Prucha and Jagr, Nylander between Hossa and Shanahan, other lines uncertain with the insertion of Krog; on D, Pöck and Rozsival, Malik and Ward, Rachunek and Tyutin. Game preview at NYR.com.

NCBRI wrote:

surprised to see none of the Czechs make the All Star team

the all star game has gotten more and more boring each year, imo .

i'd be totally content if there wasnt 1 NYR at this event . Rest and avoidance of injury- better off.

NY Post Larry Brooks


RANGERS EYE DEAL
TARGET BLUES' RUCINSKY, PENS' MALONE

By LARRY BROOKS

WORK OF ORT: Jed Ortmeyer beats the Bruins' Tim Thomas on a third-period penalty shot to help secure the Rangers' 3-1 triumph yesterday at the Garden.January 14, 2007 -- The changes the Rangers made yesterday by first replacing Adam Hall, Jason Ward and Darius Kasparaitis in the lineup with Jason Krog, Colton Orr and Thomas Pock, and then going with a variety of new line combinations and defense pairs, were constructive enough to lift the Blueshirts to a 3-1 Garden victory over the Bruins, punctuated by Jed Ortmeyer's late third-period penalty-shot goal.

But The Post has learned the Rangers are not content with what might be termed as a rearrangement of the deck chairs on the S.S. Minnow. Rather, sources report that management this week has intensified efforts to reacquire Martin Rucinsky from the Blues while also engaging in protracted conversations with the Penguins, believed to be focused on top-six winger Ryan Malone, and perhaps on physical defenseman Brooks Orpik as well.

And it appears sophomore winger Petr Prucha, who slipped from a first-period assignment on the first line to a spot on the fourth unit as yesterday's match evolved, is being dangled.

A third-party personnel source revealed the Rangers were willing to send Prucha and Adam Hall to the Blues in exchange for Rucinsky, but were rebuffed. When St. Louis president John Davidson in turn requested highly-regarded 20-year-old center Brandon Dubinsky as the bounty for Rucinsky, the conversation came to a halt.

Talks are ongoing with the Penguins, who had GM Ray Shero scoping out the Rangers' game on Thursday against the Senators, and then sent two pro scouts to yesterday's match.

The 27-year-old Malone, whose work ethic has been questioned and who was nearly dealt to Ottawa after suffering a fractured forearm in October, has five goals and five assists in 25 games, getting three of his goals on Dec. 15 against the Islanders. He has failed to pick up a point in his last nine matches despite playing a majority of them as left wing on a line with Sidney Crosby in the middle and Mark Recchi on the right.

Despite having registered four goals in his last seven games, Prucha got just 1:56 of ice in yesterday's third period, skating on a unit with Orr and Ryan Hollweg after starting the match with Jaromir Jagr and Martin Straka.

The revised defense pairings and a renewed commitment to back-checking carried the Blueshirts until Ortmeyer, playing in just his sixth game after returning from a pulmonary embolism, sealed it by beating Tim Thomas on a penalty shot after being taken down killing a penalty.

"When Jed came back to the bench, I told him, 'Good things happen to good people,' " coach Tom Renney said. "He's all of that."

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Jaromir Jagr will not play in the All-Star Game and will spend the time strengthening his left shoulder after GM Glen Sather spoke to the league and requested that No. 68 be excused for health reasons. "I think I can work on the shoulder and get it where I want it," said Jagr, who first addressed the issue last week with The Post.

Rangers 3 Bruins 1

larry.brooks@nypost.com


this absolutely sucks.

i dont wanna see prucha leave , then go elsewhere and break out and score 60 goals .

Dirty Cheerleader


MSG digs up dirt on ice princess

Counters ex-dancer's sex harass suit with tawdry & racist tales

BY THOMAS ZAMBITO
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER


Courtney Prince filed sex-harass charges against Madison Square Garden, but she's the one accused of lewd comments and bad behavior in MSG memo.


Madison Square Garden drew up a salacious, dirt-dishing memo against a Rangers cheerleader who complained of harassment - accusing her of being obsessed with sex, making racially charged comments and pushing diet pills.
Garden officials grilled troupe captain Courtney Prince's fellow ice skaters about her habits even before she filed her explosive lawsuit against the sports behemoth, the Daily News has learned.

"Prince constantly talked about her sex life, saying, for example, that she hated to come in early because she could have been [having sex]," says the March 2004 memo prepared for the Garden's legal team.

"She led at least one discussion about oral sex.

"She talked about particular sex acts that she enjoyed ... which she said she did on occasion depending on the guy."

The internal memo was tucked into papers Prince's attorneys sent to Manhattan Federal Judge Robert Sweet as both sides prepare for a possible trial. Prince, 28, sued the Garden in 2004 claiming she was fired after telling her skaters a member of the Rangers' public relations staff solicited her for sex.

She alleged skaters were treated as sex objects and that members of the PR department staff kept a 1-to-10 ranking of the skaters they'd like to bed. But even before she filed suit, Garden bigs were staging a counterattack and pushing for a settlement that would keep a lid on her seamy story.

More than a dozen skaters and other employees were quizzed about Prince in the weeks after she was fired, gathering ammunition to rip apart Prince's reputation.

Among the revelations:


Garden investigators said Prince referred to a mixed-race lineup of skaters as "my Oreo."

She was accused of calling Asian-American skater Angela Chiang "my geisha."

Prince threatened one of the two African-American skaters, Amea Bunting and Alyssa Stith, by saying, "I'll find another black girl to replace you."
Prince urged the women to wolf down diet pills and one of them, Bridie Myles, got hooked.
"Several skaters are taking diet pills prescribed via the Internet by a doctor in Florida," the memo says. "Should we address this issue? Discuss in a meeting? I am particularly concerned about their well-being, especially Bridie who acknowledged that she cannot stop taking them."

"CP [Courtney Prince] threatened skaters with firing if they did not lose weight," the memo added.


Skaters were ordered to spend off-hours in tanning salons and to pad their bras. Using a crude word, Prince said the skaters' goal was to appear sexually attractive and available.
"Several skaters reported that even though they did not want to use [the bra pads], they felt they had to use the enhancers in order to stay on [Prince's] good side," Garden attorney Christopher Parlo said in a June 2006 letter to Sweet.

The women named in the memo could not be reached for comment.

But Prince, a native of Salt Lake City who became captain of the on-ice squad in August 2003, expressed surprise when Garden officials told her the secrets the skaters had spilled.

"I thought they were my friends," she said, according to the memo.

Neither Prince's lawyers nor the Garden had any comment yesterday on the memo's lurid disclosures, although Garden spokesman Barry Watkins called the suit "baseless."

Prince's attorneys already won a crucial round in April when Sweet refused to dismiss the sex-harassment charges.

The suit revolves around a Dec. 22, 2003, encounter with Rangers PR man Jason Vogel and New York Times hockey writer Jason Diamos at Daddy-O's bar in the West Village.

She alleges that Vogel "tried to put his tongue in my mouth" and said he wanted to have sex with her in the bathroom.

Vogel denied the claim when confronted by Garden investigators, saying Prince was the one who initiated talk about sex.

"CP began talking about things of a sexual nature that she liked to do with her boyfriend and things that her boyfriend did not like to do," the memo says, recounting Vogel's version of events. "JV [Vogel] and JD [Diamos] just went with the conversation."

Garden officials reprimanded Vogel for fraternizing with skatersand he was expected to undergo sensitivity training.

Originally published on January 14, 2007

xavier mcdaniel wrote:

somewhere there's probably a middle ground where both sides are at fault in some way..

but anyways, big game tommorow night rangers at devils.

huge

i guess its a good thing that we are still only at the half season mark.

i know lots of people dont care for larry brooks or his " drivel " to sell papers-


but i have to agree- why is tom renney benching kapsaraitis, the only player in a + rating (in +/- ratings) on the entire NYR team ?

its becoming obvious that renney is either using kaspar as a scapegoat or he has a problem with him ,.......wtf doesnt Malik or even Rachunek get benched or how about this- sent to Hartford for a 2 week conditioning treatment ? They have been horrible .