A recent interview with Andrew Gross of The Record revealed Alexander Frolov will in fact play on the top line alongside star winger Marian Gaborik. If you failed to pickup my subtle hints during my last piece on Frolov, playing with Gaborik should put him back on the 30 goal plateau. In addition, both players [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 28, 2010
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A few weeks ago we released an arbitration list which named the players ready to do battle with their employers. From that list a vast majority settled with the exception of Stanley Cup winner Antti Niemi. Let’s take a short look at who settled and who is still prepared to go to war: James Wisniewski [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 27, 2010
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Officially or unofficially, the New York Rangers signing Alexander Frolov seems imminent — or at least Dmitri Chesnokov of Puck Daddy believes it will be. Like many talented Russians, Frolov received the enigma tag after failing to light the lamp similarly to an Ovechkin, Malkin or Kovalchuk but he certainly does have the talent to [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, July 10, 2010
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The Philadelphia Flyers recently signed Russian forward Nikolai Zherdev from Atlant of the KHL, less than one year after the New York Rangers walked out of his arbitration award. Z signed for a fair 2 million dollar salary which was roughly half of what he deemed his NHL price. This right winger has talent and [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 29, 2010
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“We’re kind of living off other people’s drafts and getting their development started and jumping in and us getting them at young ages.” This quote came from GM Jim Rutherford to TSN shortly after acquiring defenseman Bobby Sanguinetti from the New York Rangers. Rutherford, of course, refers to trading for former first round picks like [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 28, 2010
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Just days after the Edmonton Oilers named Tom Renney their head coach, the team selected a franchise winger in Taylor Hall. The move gives this team a whole new identity after finishing with the worst record in hockey last season. Renney came over to the Oilers after helping the New York Rangers to three straight [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 23, 2010
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Offensive Corps: As expected, Marian Gaborik led the New York Rangers in scoring after signing a lucrative deal promising 7.5 million over five seasons. At 28-years-old he continues to provide an elite source of scoring as he has throughout his career. The question throughout his career appears to be injuries– when he plays he scores, [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 14, 2010
Former New York Rangers and Columbus Blue Jackets right winger Nikolai Zherdev wants to return to America. The article from 4period.ru reports Zherdev will wait until the July 1st free agency market to hit before signing a contract but expects to sign one shortly after. Regardless of his team’s talent, Zherdev averaged 59 points over [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, March 13, 2010
The best way to describe this list is if you go to the waiver wire in your individual fantasy league (personally, I use Yahoo!) and find that Alexei Ponikarovsky, Tim Connolly, or Ryan Clowe are all available, this list is not for you. The Value 25 is a watch list intended for deep fantasy league [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 3, 2010
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Last year Derek Morris moved from the Phoenix Coyotes to the New York Rangers at the trade deadline. Today, the Boston Bruins moved him for a 4th round draft pick in 2011. The 31-year-old moves back to the desert as the Coyotes look to add some more depth on their blue line. Morris played on [...]
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