Here are ten things you won't read about the Rangers anywhere else.
Here are ten things you won't read about the Rangers anywhere else.
1. Have you noticed that Matt Rempe now is finally in Peter Laviolette's good graces? (Not great graces, mind you, but The Skating Giraffe is getting there.)
2. The Fourth (or Latter Day Crash) Line is getting some semi-healthy ice time. On Sunday, for example, Rempe totalled a staggering 8:49 while Slingin' Sam Carrick was good for 8:29.
3. Surreptitiously, "Super Stealth" – alisas Adam Edstrom – threatens to break all personal long-of-breath records at 9:07.
4. Top minute man vs. Colorado was The Maven's "Captain's Choice," Vinnie Trocheck at 22:06.
5. Prediction: Chris Drury will give Trocheck his well-deserved "C" when the cow jumps over the moon.
6. As Norris Trophy-winners go, Cale Makar gave Adam (Swiper The) Fox a good lesson in "How To Win Another Norris Trophy."
7. My Buddies Speak Out: "J.T. Miller would be too disruptive in the Rangers dressing room," says Gorgeous George Grimm. "Get Ryan O'Reilly," demands Ben Rohde.
8. The Rangers ten-game point streak was nothing to sneeze about but The Maven has hay fever!
9. If the Islanders beat Colorado at UBS tomorrow night, you can start worrying about the Nassaumen.
10. As for the customers being so-so-so angry about a Ranger like Mika Zibanejad that brand of fury was equalled in the early 1950's when the boos forced manager Frank Boucher to trade defenseman Allan Stanley to Chicago. (P.S. Big Allan wound up in the Hall of Fame.)