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According to Katie Strang of ESPN NY, both Henrik Lundqvist and Marty Biron practiced today in their Winter Classic equipment.
It is believed that the Rangers could wear their Winter Classic jerseys against the Flyers on Sunday.
SWEATER ALERT! #NYR will wear their #WinterClassic jerseys this Sunday afternoon when they host the @NHLFlyers at The Garden
— New York Rangers (@thenyrangers) February 3, 2012
Christensen on his relationship with John Tortorella, via NHL.com: “I probably frustrate him more than anyone else on this team. He’s definitely given me an opportunity. I come up here and didn’t know what to expect. He’s definitely got a people kind of side to him. He’s not the guy everyone sees on the bench. He’ll talk to you. You’ll see him laughing and joking with the guys. It’s been a lot of fun playing for him.”
Yeo on Christensen: I’m excited. He’s quality NHL player. He’s got elite skill. His hands, passing, his vision, his shot, versatile #mnwild
— Michael Russo (@Russostrib) February 3, 2012
Fletcher on Christensen: His strengths are areas where we need to improve upon; shootout, PP, center
— Michael Russo (@Russostrib) February 3, 2012
Just showed 2 guys on Gardenvision next to Dolan; Derek Stepan & Ryan McDonagh. Apparently, they are Rangers & close to winning the cup
— Frank Isola (@FisolaNYDN) February 3, 2012
Loading ...NOTE: It is believed at this time that Shane Doan, Teemu Selanne and Bobby Ryan will not be moved at the deadline.
Poll idea via GK
Katie Strang tweets that the Rangers have sent Jeff Woywitka and Wojtek Wolski down to Hartford for two-week conditioning stints.
The Whale have two games this weekend.
Woywitka last played on December 30th and Wolski last played on January 15th.
Erik Christensen previously went to Hartford for a conditioning stint.
Last night during a game between the Columbus Blue Jackets and LA Kings, Drew Doughty did his best Brad Richards impersonation and scored the game winning goal with o.4 seconds left in regulation.
As the video below shows though, the clock stops at 1.8 seconds:
Columbus GM Scott Howson wrote in a blog post at the Blue Jackets website:
It is an amazing coincidence that with the Kings on a power play at STAPLES Center and with a mad scramble around our net in the dying seconds of the third period of a 2-2 hockey game that the clock stopped for at least one full second. I can only think of two ways in which this would have happened. Either there was a deliberate stopping of the clock or the clock malfunctioned.
Kings GM Dean Lombardi responded, to ESPN.com, with, “Those clocks are sophisticated instruments that calculate time by measuring electrical charges called coulombs — given the rapidity and volume of electrons that move through the measuring device the calibrator must adjust at certain points which was the delay you see — the delay is just recalibrating for the clock moving too quickly during the 10 – 10ths of a second before the delay — this insures that the actual playing time during a period is exactly 20 minutes That is not an opinion — that is science — amazing devise quite frankly.”
There is more on this story at the Globe and Mail.
At Hockey’s Future, Leslie Treff takes a look back at the Rangers 2007 draft picks.
The Rangers first round pick that year was Alexei Cherepanov who passed away during a KHL game in 2008.
The Rangers second round pick that year was goalie Antoine Lafleur.
In the sixth round the Rangers selected Carl Hagelin and he is the only player from that draft class who has played in the NHL.
Since December 26th, the Rangers have only allowed two power plays against in 41 opportunities.
The Rangers killed off six Buffalo power plays last night including a five on three.
In the NY Post, Larry Brooks wrote:
The penalty-killers, paced by a rambunctious and relentless Callahan, Brian Boyle, Brandon Prust and Derek Stepan, simply would not yield in snuffing five Buffalo power plays that included a 41-second five-on-three in the first period.
In that same time, the Rangers have scored two power play goals in 39 attempts.
The Rangers are third in the league in Penalty Killing and 26th on the PP.
Following the Rangers loss to NJ on Tuesday, Ryan Callahan told MSG that the PP will start to click at some point, “I think you gotta stay positive with it, it’s gonna come. We have the personnel in here to do this, it’s just a matter of executing it and getting it done.”
John Tortorella added that they were just going to keep working at it.
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