Rangers Mix Up Lines, Then Put It All Together
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Providing the Rangers nice flashbacks to last seasonâs first-round playoff sweep and playing a dreadful stretch of their own, the Thrashers ran into an angry and energized Rangers team.
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The New York Rangers were outworked and overmatched all day by the hapless Philadelphia Flyers. Watching 38-year-old teammate Brendan Shanahan wheeled off the ice on a stretcher in the third period did nothing to change their fortunes.
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Jaromir Jagr cracked himself up when reciting the perfect analogy for goals by hard-hitters Colton Orr and Ryan Hollweg. "I would have compared it to when a big fat guy scores a touchdown in football," the New York Rangers' captain said. "Everyone loves it. I want to see a big guy dancing. Don't tell them. They're going to want to beat me up now."
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The Rangers have been a dominant team at home this year, compiling a 46-25 record at Ameriquest Field in Arlington. One homestand remains and Texas will need near-perfection if it is going to keep its hopes alive for an American League West title.
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The current tales of the Red Sox have them winning the World Series, then doing weird things to reconfigure their championship team. Hello, David; bye bye, Pedro.
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The Rangers continued two frustrating streaks: their habit of following promising stretches of games with baffling ones and their inability to beat any team in the Western Conference.
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Marian Gaborik had a hand in all six of his teamâs goals as the Minnesota Wild dealt the Rangers a jarring defeat in St. Paul.
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Petr Prucha has two goals and assists on another, and linemates Matt Cullen and Jed Ortmeyer also have three points in the Rangers' 6-1 victory over the Bruins.
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For all the triumphs of last season, the Rangers find themselves in 11th place in the Eastern Conference entering Saturdayâs game against the St. Louis Blues.
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The Rangers rely on Henrik Lundqvist to lock things down on defense. They just never counted on Nigel Dawes to supply all the offense.
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he Mets could mouth the platitudes explaining how they must play out every game, detail the lessons to be learned from the stretch run of a lost season.
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The Rangers are at war with the National Hockey League over their Web site. Should they control it or should the league?
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A team fighting for its life -- in more ways than one -- plays on.
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Brendan Shanahan isn't the captain of the New York Rangers, he's just the guy who sticks up for him.
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OK, the Texas Rangers have kicked the 1950 Red Sox and 1955 White Sox out of the record book by scoring 30 runs against the Orioles last Wednesday. So come and see me when they score 49 in back-to-back games.
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The Rangers are moving closer to the top teams in the league, but they could not quite match the speed and teamwork of the Sabres on Sunday.
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Jason Ellison stood up for a teammate. Miguel Batista took one for the team. And Ichiro Suzuki? All he could do was laugh about his role in a benches-clearing shoving match.