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• Will New Faces, Old Strategy Help Spending-Happy Rangers?
• By Kevin Schultz 7/03/2009 12:10 PM ET
• Ah yes, another July 1 passes and the Rangers make another splash in the free agent market. This year they signed the oft-injured and cranky Marian Gaborik to a five-year deal worth $37.5 million, and ... More »
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• Report: Markus Naslund to Retire
• By Tom Mantzouranis 5/03/2009 2:05 PM ET
• Markus Naslund, at one point earlier in the decade an elite winger, has decided to retire. Naslund would be entering the last year of a two-year, $8 million contract with the Rangers in a five-year ...
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• Rangers Steal Game 1 in Washington
• By Eric McErlain 4/15/2009 11:05 PM ET
• WASHINGTON -- If you took a quick look at the box score of Wednesday's game between the Washington Capitals and New York Rangers, you could be forgiven if you were surprised that the home team and ... More »
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• NHL Eastern Conference Playoff Preview
• By Bruce Ciskie 4/14/2009 3:30 PM ET
• Exactly 1,230 regular season games have been played. We're down to the best eight teams in each conference. The Stanley Cup Playoffs begin Wednesday night with four series lid-lifters. In the Eastern ... More »
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• Rangers, Canadiens to Fight for Their Playoff Lives
• By Adam Gretz 4/07/2009 2:05 PM ET
• The playoffs might not start for another week, but Tuesday's throw down in Madison Square Garden between the Rangers and Canadiens might as well be a playoff game. How big is this game? Well, if we ... More »
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• Newsmakers in the NHL: Olli Jokinen Scores 2 in Calgary Debut
• By Adam Gretz 3/06/2009 1:30 AM ET
• Flames 5, Flyers 1: The Calgary Flames were the big winners during the NHL's trade deadline, picking up Olli Jokinen from the Phoenix Coyotes and Jordan Leopold from the Colorado Avalanche. It didn't ... More »
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• Newsmakers in the NHL: Zetterberg Leads Detroit Over San Jose
• By Adam Gretz 2/26/2009 1:30 AM ET
• Red Wings 4, Sharks 1: In the fourth -- and final -- regular season installment of Western Conference Finals Preview '09, Detroit picked up a 4-1 win over San Jose on Wednesday night. Henrik ... More »
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• Newsmakers in the NHL: Capitals Power Play Stops Devils Streak
• By Adam Gretz 2/04/2009 1:00 AM ET
• Capitals 5, Devils 2: The Washington Capitals took advantage of their three power play chances on Tuesday night, converting on all of them on their way to a 5-2 win over the New Jersey Devils. Mike ... More »
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• Rangers Send '9' to the Rafters
• By Bruce Ciskie 2/03/2009 8:40 PM ET
• It was a very emotional night Tuesday at Madison Square Garden. The New York Rangers retired the number of forward Adam Graves before their game against Atlanta. 52 of Graves' 329 career goals came ...
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• Newsmakers in the NHL: Cam Ward Comes Up Big for Carolina
• By Adam Gretz 1/21/2009 9:00 AM ET
• The Penguins and Hurricanes entered Tuesday's game in Pittsburgh separated by one point in the Eastern Conference standings, and when you consider the two teams occupied the No's. 9 and 10 seeds ... More »
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• Newsmakers in the NHL: Islanders Are the Worst 3rd Period Team Ever
• By Adam Gretz 12/30/2008 1:30 AM ET
• Okay, so maybe the title is a bit of an overreaction. Still, that doesn't change the fact the New York Islanders are a terrible, terrible third period hockey team, and they proved it once again on ... More »
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• Yesterday's Newsmakers in the NHL: Steven Stamkos vs. Nikolai Zherdev
• By Adam Gretz 11/27/2008 12:15 AM ET
• What an incredible night of hockey. Let's get right to it. The last time the Lightning and Rangers met, way back on November 6, Tampa Bay goalie Mike Smith went crazy on Rangers forward Aaron Voros, ... More »
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• Yesterday's Newsmakers in the NHL: Rough Night for Goalies, Great Night for Offense
• By Adam Gretz 11/20/2008 1:15 AM ET
• Before we dig into last night's action, this was passed on to us here at FanHouse in the spirit of the holiday season. The National Hockey League and the Salvation Army have partnered up this year to ... More »
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• The Ice Sheet: Rangers Steal Show in Europe
• By Eric McErlain 10/06/2008 1:00 AM ET
• Every Monday morning The Ice Sheet will take a close look at everything that's happened in the NHL since Friday night at 5:00 p.m. To read them all, click here. On Saturday morning when I passed ... More »
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• Hockey Loses a Real Hero as Trevor Linden Announces His Retirement
• By Jes Golbez 6/11/2008 3:29 PM ET
• Trevor Linden, one of the classiest and more generous professional athletes of all-time, has formally announced his retirement from the NHL after a career which saw him compile 867 points in 1,382 ... More »
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• The Hives Pay a Visit to Vancouver
• By Eric McErlain 2/28/2008 11:30 PM ET
• The Hives seem to be trying to get a lot of mileage out of cross-promotions with the NHL. It was only a few weeks ago that the Swedish band got a gig playing the NHL All-Star Game in Atlanta ...
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• NHLPA Goes "Green"
• By Jes Golbez 12/08/2007 10:40 AM ET
• Corporations and other interests groups going 'Green' is the big trend these days after Al Gore's movie opened up many eyes to what's going on in the world. Of course, most 'greenwashing' is simply ...
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• The Ice Sheet: Osgood As He Wants to Be
• By Jes Golbez 11/22/2007 6:30 AM ET
• For most of his career, the oft-maligned Chris Osgood has been panned as a mediocre goalie that has had the fortune of playing behind great teams. Despite having his name engraved on the Stanley Cup ... More »
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• All is Not Well in Vancouver
• By Jes Golbez 10/30/2007 3:07 PM ET
• All is not well in Lotusland, as the Canucks are off to a poor 5-7-0 start and look nothing like the team that tore the NHL apart during the 2nd half of last season. With the losses piling up, coach ...
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• Markus Naslund Trying to Recruit Forsberg
• By Jes Golbez 8/17/2007 11:07 AM ET
• For a guy who has done very little except sit at home and recover from his various injuries, Peter Forsberg has popped up in the news an awful lot. First, there was talk about a reunion in Colorado. ...
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