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moster78 · July 2007

metsfan531941 wrote:

DATE VISITOR HOME TIME (EDT)
Wed Oct 10, 2007 Rangers Islanders 7:00 PM
Tue Nov 6, 2007 Rangers Islanders 7:00 PM
Mon Nov 19,2007 Islanders Rangers 7:00 PM
Thu Nov 29, 2007 Islanders Rangers 7:00 PM
Tue Mar 4, 2008 Islanders Rangers 7:00 PM
Thu Mar 6, 2008 Rangers Islanders 7:00 PM
Thu Apr 3, 2008 Rangers Islanders 7:00 PM
Fri Apr 4, 2008 Islanders Rangers 7:00 PM

That Thursday Nov. 29 game sounds awesome! One day after my birthday!

xavier mcdaniel · July 2007

an excerpt from today's daily news:

The Daily News also has learned that Sather is shopping center Matt Cullen, with a trade back to the Carolina Hurricanes very much on the front burner. Should the Rangers shed Cullen's contract (three years left at $2.8million per), they'd trim nearly $3million from this season's cap hit.

That could simply provide flexibility for potential in-season moves. But it just as easily could be the first step in a plan to clear enough cap space to sign free-agent defenseman Sheldon Souray, whom the Devils and Islanders have pursued. Unloading defenseman Paul Mara's $3million salary undoubtedly would be another requirement.

Bathgate66 · July 2007

This guy was a secret sniper on the shootouts, i figured he would be a great 3rd line centerman- i know these are the wheels of progress, but still- an overall good guy.

Bulletin

July 12, 2007
Recruiting Rangers for the Right Reasons
Once, you could tell the difference between which players wanted to win and which wanted to cash in by which wanted to come to New York, where golden parachutes into retrement was readily available. The tables have turned. The Rangers are still giving out lucrative contracts left and right, but these days players are choosing the Rangers over richer offers from other teams because they believe they can win a Stanley Cup here.

New centers Chris Drury and Scott Gomez both chose the Rangers despite better offers elsewhere, according to one NHL insider, with Drury turning down offers from at least three other teams, including one that was more than $10 million richer. Brendan Shanahan and Henrik Lundqvist both re-signed for more than expected, but both made some accomodations to help the Rangers stay under the salary cap while not even listening to better offers they could have gotten elsewhere (although Larry Brooks of the Post takes a different view with respect to Lundqvist, whom he chastises for taking as much as $4.25 million).

And Sheldon Souray remains unsigned by the NHL at large because he badly wants to be a Ranger next season, according to two inside sources. Having turned down a multi-year offer from Montreal, he is said to be willing to come to New York on a one-year deal, so sure is he that the Rangers are on the cusp of bona fide Stanley Cup contention. The obstacle is of course the salary cap. To make room for what Glen Sather seems to believe is the last piece to the puzzle, Marek Malik's $2.5 million contract appears to be on the line -- he may end up in Hartford if Sather can't find any takers on the trade market, although Ranger coaches think highly of the maligned defenseman and may be pushing to keep him.

Another salary that can be shed to create more cap space is Matt Cullen's, who is reportedly front and center in trade discussions with his former team, the Hurricanes, according to both the Daily News here in New York and the Raleigh News-Observer in North Carolina -- having been happy there in the past, Cullen may very well be Steve Zipay's "player [who] has told friends he wouldn't mind being moved." One name mentioned in a potential Cullen trade is Anton Babchuk, a 6'5, 202-pound Ukrainian defenseman with offensive upside who is only 23 and has a qualifying offer just shy of $950,000 out there (he has not filed for arbitration).

Elsewhere, Jim Schoenfeld will shortly be named Ranger assistant GM, according to Bruce Berlet in the Hartford Courant today, as Mitch Beck deduced after talking to Schoenfeld at the NHL draft last month. He will retain the title of Hartford GM while Ken Gernander takes over as head coach. Hockey Rodent has a sidebar on changes in Russia's labor laws that could affect the ability of Ranger draftee Alexei Cherepanov to leave Russia, although not necessarily in an adverse way. To read more about Lundqvist, see the Journal News, Newsday, Record, NY Sports Day, and MSG.com (Sam Rosen here and David Kolb here). For more on Souray, see Spector at FoxSports.

best of luck to matt if he does escape back to Carolina- but we all know what stage all these guys want to play on .( aparently including Souray , as well )

rival. · July 2007

Bathgate66 wrote:

This guy was a secret sniper on the shootouts, i figured he would be a great 3rd line centerman- i know these are the wheels of progress, but still- an overall good guy.

agreed. i wish the rangers would give him another season to try and break out.

NY PJ1 · July 2007

hmmmmmnnnnnnnnnnn souray wants ny bad

who takes cullen's 3rd line spot??

Bathgate66 · July 2007

what about the part about shipping malik off to heartford to make even more room. ?

malik seemed to snap back towards the end of the season, regardless of his traffic cone defense method .

Phantom Pain · July 2007

Watched the Briere News Conference he had a nice quote

He said, "I'm looking forward to hating the Rangers." I love it!

Bring it on Bitches !!!!

HailHailVitalogy · July 2007

Since this fall is going to start my first year of school I won't be able to make as many games as I have.

I think these would be the games:
November 3rd - Devils
December 9th- Devils
December 12th - @ Washington
January 16th - Buffalo
February 10th - @ Washington
April 4th - Isles

That April 4th game should be fuckin sweet since it's the last NYRvsNYI game of the year and its the day after they play each other again.

Every year my father, aunt, and uncle go on a hockey canada trip and I think I may join them if they decide to do it at the beginning of January when the Rangers play Calgary, Vancouver, and Edmonton all within 4 days.

Steve Dunne · July 2007

Bathgate66 wrote:

what about the part about shipping malik off to heartford to make even more room. ?

malik seemed to snap back towards the end of the season, regardless of his traffic cone defense method .

keep marik out of hartford. i don't care if it's a mites team. he sucked for the whalers. he still sucks.

NY PJ1 · July 2007

Bathgate66 wrote:

what about the part about shipping malik off to heartford to make even more room. ?

malik seemed to snap back towards the end of the season, regardless of his traffic cone defense method .

i dont understand that?? does it cut cap?? it must i guess

we need to have that explained

Bathgate66 · July 2007

Phantom Pain wrote:

Watched the Briere News Conference he had a nice quote

He said, "I'm looking forward to hating the Rangers." I love it!

Bring it on Bitches !!!!

i was thinking about this earlier

it will be very interesting to see danielle and drury face to face out in the muck.( of course throw avery into the mix who singlehandedly can throw danielle off of her game.)

going to be a great season.

[size=+3] - _/ _/ _/ Lets Go Rangers \_ \_ \_ - [/size]

Phantom Pain · July 2007

Bathgate66 wrote:

i was thinking about this earlier

it will be very interesting to see danielle and drury face to face out in the muck.( of course throw avery into the mix who singlehandedly can throw danielle off of her game.)

going to be a great season.

[size=+3] - _/ _/ _/ Lets Go Rangers \_ \_ \_ - [/size]

Wouldn't it have been great for the first National Game Drury vs Briere

We have our own Avery this year. Young kid Downie he has a few screws loose

Check this out : http://youtube.com/watch?v=_jxeNziXS-c

NY PJ1 · July 2007

Phantom Pain wrote:

Wouldn't it have been great for the first National Game Drury vs Briere

We have our own Avery this year. Young kid Downie he has a few screws loose

Check this out : http://youtube.com/watch?v=_jxeNziXS-c

he did di%$ last game of the year against us

wait till we bring up fritz on ur asses 6-8 230 what

Hawkshore · July 2007

NY PJ1 wrote:

i dont understand that?? does it cut cap?? it must i guess

we need to have that explained

Players assigned to the minors do not count against your cap room....but to send a player like Malik to the minors with the number of games he has played in the NHL you would have to first put him on waivers before you could assign him to the minors.........So the question becomes is the cap additional cap room worth the risk of losing the player?

NY PJ1 · July 2007

Hawkshore wrote:

Players assigned to the minors do not count against your cap room....but to send a player like Malik to the minors with the number of games he has played in the NHL you would have to first but him on waivers before you could assign him to the minors.........So the question becomes is the cap additional cap room worth the risk of losing the player?

thank you ,,send him away and bring in souray

in this case it would be worth it

HailHailVitalogy · July 2007

Souray signed with Edmonton

Bathgate66 · July 2007

HailHailVitalogy wrote:

Souray signed with Edmonton

now maybe these distractions will go away,

and we can work on the bunch that we already have assmebled ,

we can make a damn good run .

NY PJ1 · July 2007

Bathgate66 wrote:

now maybe these distractions will go away,

and we can work on the bunch that we already have assmebled ,

we can make a damn good run .

touche bath

Bathgate66 · July 2007

todays Post

CULLEN DENIES TALK OF TRADE
RANGERS DEEP DOWN MIDDLE
By LARRY BROOKS
July 13, 2007 -- The story sweeping the hockey underground is that Matt Cullen has told the Rangers he would welcome a trade after spending one year on Broadway.

Problem with the tale is, that's news to Cullen, who has three years at $2.85 million remaining on the free-agent contract he signed last summer with the Blueshirts following a 2006 Stanley Cup victory in Carolina.

"I haven't said anything of the sort to anyone," Cullen told The Post by phone yesterday from Nashville, Tenn., where he is appearing at an NHL charity event. "I haven't asked to be traded, I haven't said that I'd like to be traded, and I don't want to be traded.

"I guess like everyone else, when we signed [Scott Gomez and Chris Drury], I wondered about the (salary) cap situation and whether there'd be room to keep everyone, but from what I'm told, there is space.

"I've been hearing my name lately in rumors, but none of it is coming from me. I'm excited about the team. I want to be a part of it."

As it slots now, Cullen would be the team's third-line center behind Gomez and Drury. The Rangers are not contemplating moving either Sean Avery or Martin Straka off the wing into the middle.

They also have no intention heading into training camp with their fingers crossed that either freshman Artem Anisimov or Brandon Dubinsky would be able to fill the hole at pivot that would be created by moving Cullen, an important penalty-killer who finished last year with 41 points (16-25) and a plus-2 rating while leading the club with 54.6-percent faceoff efficiency.

The Rangers have no immediate cap issues. There's no need to create personnel issues by moving Cullen and thereby creating a potential weakness at a position of strength.

"I'm looking forward to being part of the Rangers," Cullen said. "Anything that's out there to the contrary just isn't true."

rival. · July 2007

Bathgate66 wrote:

todays Post

CULLEN DENIES TALK OF TRADE
RANGERS DEEP DOWN MIDDLE
By LARRY BROOKS
July 13, 2007 -- The story sweeping the hockey underground is that Matt Cullen has told the Rangers he would welcome a trade after spending one year on Broadway.

Problem with the tale is, that's news to Cullen, who has three years at $2.85 million remaining on the free-agent contract he signed last summer with the Blueshirts following a 2006 Stanley Cup victory in Carolina.

"I haven't said anything of the sort to anyone," Cullen told The Post by phone yesterday from Nashville, Tenn., where he is appearing at an NHL charity event. "I haven't asked to be traded, I haven't said that I'd like to be traded, and I don't want to be traded.

"I guess like everyone else, when we signed [Scott Gomez and Chris Drury], I wondered about the (salary) cap situation and whether there'd be room to keep everyone, but from what I'm told, there is space.

"I've been hearing my name lately in rumors, but none of it is coming from me. I'm excited about the team. I want to be a part of it."

As it slots now, Cullen would be the team's third-line center behind Gomez and Drury. The Rangers are not contemplating moving either Sean Avery or Martin Straka off the wing into the middle.

They also have no intention heading into training camp with their fingers crossed that either freshman Artem Anisimov or Brandon Dubinsky would be able to fill the hole at pivot that would be created by moving Cullen, an important penalty-killer who finished last year with 41 points (16-25) and a plus-2 rating while leading the club with 54.6-percent faceoff efficiency.

The Rangers have no immediate cap issues. There's no need to create personnel issues by moving Cullen and thereby creating a potential weakness at a position of strength.

"I'm looking forward to being part of the Rangers," Cullen said. "Anything that's out there to the contrary just isn't true."

good. alot of fans were on cullen's back last year. he is a good player and deserves another season with the blueshirts.

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