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* The Rangers’ offense keeps getting tested. They’ve won games where they’ve had to bail out Henrik Lundqvist or the defense. They’ve won games where they’ve had to do all the transition work because the defense can’t do it for them. They’ve won games where
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* When I complain about poor lineup decisions or defensive pairings from Alain Vigneault I’m often met with things like “well the Rangers are winning games so it doesn’t matter.” Friday afternoon my complaints about the defensive pairs was met with “the Rangers are 5-2 so you’re not
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* I have a funny feeling we’re going to see more games like that than people think. Other teams making quick work of the Rangers’ (lack of) defense and the offense having to pick up the slack. We’ve seen that happen a few times this year but this time
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* The New York Rangers played probably their worst game of the year last night and still came away with two points. OK, they definitely played their worst game of the year and still came away with two points. This offense is going to be able to steal games for the
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* I’m relatively positive the Rangers of last year wouldn’t have won that game. I don’t like making those generalizations because in truth we don’t know, but the Rangers’ ability to roll four lines made an enormous difference. The Rangers were neutral zone monsters, forced a four-to-one
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* We’re going to learn a lot about the way the brass of this organization thinks by what they do between now and Saturday’s game against the Washington Capitals. Especially if Dan Girardi is given the green light to return. * Why? Well, this was another game where the Rangers
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* Yesterday was an interesting development in the “stats vs. eye test” debate. The Rangers got shelled in possession (49-28) but until the final 10 minutes of the third period — more on that later — I thought the Rangers did a really good job keeping the Sharks to the outside and not
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* Last year I talked about how important the process was when the Rangers were winning game after game despite playing like ... well ... crap. This morning I’m talking about it the other way around. The Rangers dominated that game, to the tune of shutting St. Louis out in shots on
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* That’s about as quality of a win as you’re going to get to kick off the year. It was a 60-minute effort, top to bottom, with great special teams and an offense that proved it has the tools to take care of the defensive mess. * The Chris Kreider
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This recap is going to be a little different from the stock-tracker we’ve done in the past. Instead, I’m going to put players in categories based on where I think they stand in Alain Vigneault’s mind. I will mark out my personal feelings and little summaries where
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One reminder in case you missed it. We’ve launched a shirt store for both the website and the podcast. Mike designed a fantastic Crab Person logo and we’re running with it. Check out our shirt designs (more coming soon) here. Stock Rising Jimmy Vesey and Pavel Buchnevich --
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Stock Rising: Brandon Pirri -- He literally can't stop scoring goals. Pirri came into camp as a somewhat unknown in terms of what he could bring to the table, while also wielding an enormous chip on his shoulder to prove he had more to his game. He made