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Avery Full Contact

There’s always another game…
October 29 This is why I’d have a hard time covering the NFL. Because as opposed to the Rangers, who can come right back tonight after Saturday’s debacle, a football schedule means scribes like me would have to come up with a full week’s worth of “what went wrong and what are you going to do about it” stories.

Instead, we have tonight to see how the Rangers respond to the latest in a string of setbacks. I will stop short of making any predictions.

As for news:


Sean Avery was cleared for contact in the skate today, and was subjected to some bumps along the boards from Brandon Dubinsky. Later came more sprints under the supervision of Perry Pearn. Fittingly, Adam Graves was one of the people watching Avery skate, and the former 50-goal scorer was noting how the Rangers needed Avery’s fire back in the lineup. “He has an effect on both the team he’s on and the team he’s playing.” Funny, I thought while Graves was saying this to me, the Rangers used to have another guy like that…

Meanwhile, the more likely return date for Avery is still Saturday, but as Tom Renney said, “I don’t have Thursday circled, but he has it circled in felt pin.” In other words, Avery could make a case to return against the Caps.


Alas, the Dave Scatchard Era is over before it started, so cancel your jersey orders. The Rangers passed on offering the center a contract after he went down with a groin injury after just one game in Hartford. Turns out the jump from practices with University of British Columbia was bigger than he thought.


Tampa Bay’s standout defenseman Dan Boyle could return tonight after missing the first part of the season with a left wrist injury. The defenseman, who Renney coached in the World Championships a few years back, is a free agent at the end of the season, something the coach readily noted.

maybe the sparkplugs arrival can get this ball rolling.

Jan Hlavac ? :eek:

:eek:


thats a blast from the past.

go dawes!

[size=+2] - _/ Lets Go Rangers \_ -[/size]

they referred to jagrs smile as a jackolantern smile ! :eek: :eek:


from the Bulletin :

Sean Avery, close to returning to action, made himself highly visible during and after last night's game. Looking sharp in a black suit and a tie dotted with skull and crossbones, he watched part of the third period from the blue seats. "Thirsty people," he joked about the fans he met up there. "They don't serve much water." But he said he had fun. He also had fun with his teammates during their postgame interviews, listening in on Jagr, Shanahan, and Gomez, and chiming in on the latter two. See Blueshirts Blog and Blue Notes for more on his imminent return from a separated shoulder.

xavier mcdaniel wrote:

avery was hysterical standing around gomez and shanahan while they were being interviewed. at one point, he said, he was in the 300s trying to start the fuckin wave..

i hope J got to meet him......going up into the stands to hang out with thge lunatic fans ! ? ! ? thats awesome.

so its looking like Avery will make his return tomorrow night against the Diablos.

Go Avery !

November 03, 2007
Third Straight On the Line for Lundqvist and Brodeur
Will it be just another day at the office tonight for Henrik Lundqvist? Probably, as the offensively challenged Rangers will continue to rely on his superb netminding and their shut-down defense in going for their second straight win over the Devils, whom they shut out 2-0 at the start of their current 3-1 homestand ten days ago. But what will it be like for Martin Brodeur down the other end? Sean Avery returns to the Ranger line-up after missing the last ten games with a shoulder injury, promising to harass the Devils' histrionic keeper as he did so famously last season. Brodeur got off to a shaky start to his season, but has given up just three goals in fifty shots in winning his last two starts. He will be playing his third game in four nights as both teams, with identical 5-6-1 records, vie for their first three-game win streak of the season.

See Newsday for an article on Avery's return, the Post to read about the Rangers' success at home, the Journal News for a story on Brandon Dubinsky, the Record for a look at the slow starts experienced by both the Rangers and Devils, and NYR.com for their usual game preview. John Dellapina has the full story of the Rangers losing the initial phase of their lawsuit against the NHL over control of their web site in the Daily News and Blueshirts Blog (see the AP report for more) -- this ruling was on the injunction the Rangers were seeking to keep the league from fining them $100,000 a day until they turned over their web site, but as Dellapina reports, it leaves little hope for an eventual win over the league in this matter. In Hartford, Tommy Pyatt scored twice and assisted on Dane Byers's goal in a 4-3 Wolf Pack win -- see the Courant and Howlings for game reports. At Prospect Park, Jess has a full recap of other prospect action last night.

Posted by Dubi on November 03, 2007 at 10:15 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)


martin brodeur better be ready this time,

last time, he swatted at and then pushed avery in the face.

tonights time for some payback.

i'll be in atlantic city, seeing the police.

hope this is on rangers in 60 sometime tomorrow .

igotid88 wrote:

nice shootout win by the rangers.

niiiiiice

glad to read this.
gotta love avery-

did he do okay in his return , aside from his warmup tustle ?