Blue Shirt Banter

The New York Rangers took on the Boston Bruins about 45 minutes later than expected due to travel issues — genuinely do not ever remember that happening in my life as a Rangers’ fan, although I am sure there are instances of it happening — but it happened. When all was said and done the Rangers lost 3-0 and got their first goalie-ing of the season. But who cares about preseason … [Read more...] about New York Rangers Stock Report: Goalied Of Course

As the New York Rangers training camp progresses the team has started scrimmaging. Scarily in today’s scrimmage, Vince Mercogliano broke the news of Zibanejad sustaining a potential injury. After not returning for the second period of the scrimmage, the concern for the Rangers’ number one center grew. A little while later Laviolette announced Zibanejad’s injury. The team is … [Read more...] about Mika Zibanejad Day-to-Day with Upper Body Injury

Here are today’s news and links: Rangers News: Larry Brooks details how Jonathan Quick will be in foreign territory in more ways than one as he gets set to back up Igor Shesterkin this season (NY Post) Brooks also points out that Peter Laviolette has used the early days of training camp to experiment with different defensive pairings rarely seen or utilized under Gerard … [Read more...] about Bantering Points:9/23/23

Training camp started on Wednesday, and since that point we’ve heard from Chris Drury, Peter Laviolette, and a handful of players who’ve spoken on topics like how last season went and what they are focused on accomplishing in 2023-24. One notable player to speak was Igor Shesterkin, and this quote leads to today’s prompt. Do you think Igor Shesterkin was too hard on himself for … [Read more...] about Discussion of the Day: 9/22/23

New York Rangers’ camp opened up on Wednesday with players returning for off-ice testing and team media day. Peter Laviolette spoke to the press in attendance, and he made a point to talk about trying different player combinations. Feel free to speak to the forwards, the defense, power play, penalty kill, etc. This really can be anything. For me, as I have said previously, I … [Read more...] about Discussion of the Day: 9/21/23