NEW YORK – Believe it not Ranger fans, no matter how bad your team has played over the first half of the season, there’s eight other Eastern squads that have played worse.
And you know what eighth place means – playoffs.
“Yeah you win a few games during the week,” said Christopher Higgins, “and you move up [...]

NEW YORK – Simple fact: Since the lockout, the Ranger were never under .500 this far into the season under Tom Renney.
Yet, in less than a year into the John Tortorella regime, the Rangers stand at 14-15-2.
Say what you want about the Rangers abrasive coach, but the fact is that record is not getting the [...]

NEW YORK – Here’s the tricky math John Tortorella has to go though. How do you divide four by three?
You see, there are three spots open on defense and four very good candidates. There’s just so much room to go around.
And after tonight’s 3-2 Ranger win over the Detroit Red Wings, the decision’s are getting [...]

As off-season’s go, Glen Sather really hasn’t had a good one since the lockout.
You might remember that one when the Ranger’s GM scrambled to fill his team with Czechs, just to keep Jaromir Jagr, his one superstar, happy. That worked with the Rangers making the playoffs for the first time in seven years.
But since then…Uggh.
The [...]

On breakup day, after the Rangers were eliminated by the Buffalo Sabres  in 2007, Tom Renney addressed the media. Right after he was finished, I handed him the newest issue of New York Sportscene with an article I wrote on the coach.
Usually when you hand sports figures press on themselves, they take it, thank you, [...]