Here are some notes random notes on the Rangers after 22 games:
Lines:
Frolov-Stepan-Gaborik
Dubinsky-Anisimov-Callahan
Prust-Boyle-Fedotenko
Avery-Christensen-White/Boogaard
D (seems to switch every game)
Staal-Girardi
Del Zotto-Eminger
Gilroy-Sauer
Top PP
Frolov-Gaborik-Stepan
Del Zotto - Girardi
Frolov-Stepan-Gaborik
- Derek Stepan has 6 pts in his last 6. He’s been playing steady time on the top line with Gaborik and Frolov.
- Alex Frolov has 11 pts in 22 games, 7 of those 11 pts have been scored with Gaborik in the lineup (4 of those 7 pts came in the same game)
- The Rangers are 6-3-1 with Gaborik in the lineup
Boyle:
- Brian Boyle’s Cy Young bid was snapped with an assist 2 games ago. 9G-1A
- Brian Boyle had 5 minutes and 3 seconds of PP time last season. He already has 10:58 this season (only 0:29 a game though)
Dubinsky-Anisimov-Callahan
- Anisimov’s PP average TOI was 43 seconds last year, 2:47 this season
- Ryan Callahan leads the NHL in hits with 91 (9 above 2nd place Cal Clutterbuck). Boyle sits in 16th and Fedotenko sits in 21st
- Brandon Dubinsky’s shooting % is at a high 23.1% (good for 6th in the NHL)
- The Dubinsky-Anisimov-Callahan line has been in tact all season, but Dubinsky is not a LW on Yahoo!
- Dubinsky is in 4th in draws on the team, that’s probably why
The D
- The Rangers lead the NHL in blocked shots
- Dan Girardi is leading the way with 68 blocked shots (13 above the 2nd placed Lydman)
- The only top 10 category in the NHL Del Zotto is in is giveaways for D-Men
- Del Zotto is trying to play more defensively this year, could be why he has 6 pts in 22 games
- Dan Girardi scored his 1st goal in 20 games, now has 13 pts in 22 games playing top PP and a huge chunk of time even. (Note: Talked to Girardi’s parents in the offseason (haha) and they said that in his end of year interview Tort’s said ‘the biggest mistake I made all year was keeping you off the PP’)
- I don’t like Steve Eminger
The PP
- Rangers are 3 for 24 on the PP in the last 7 games.
Goalies
- Rangers are 5-2 in last 7 (Biron has won 4 of them)
- Biron has only allowed more than 2 goals in 1 start this season out of 7.
Boogaard:
- Derek Boogaard has 31 PIMs this year with 5 fights. That is $320,000 a fight so far (Pro rated thats around $64,000 a fight...how much do UFC fighters make?)
- If you want to convert that into dollars per goals...that’s $1.6M for each goal scored.
- According to hockeyfights.com voting, Boogey sits at 3-1-1 in tillies this season. Prust sits at 6 and 1
Avery:
- Avery has been playing around 7 minutes a night lately. Thats because of the emergence of Stepan and maybe he ticked off Torts somehow.
Injury Updates:
- From Andrew Gross: Rozsival participates in Rangers practice in non-contact jersey. Chris Drury and Vinny Prospal also on trip.
- Chris Drury is on the bench watching, will skate today (after team practice). Prospal will not
- Vinny Prospal is slated to come back mid-December
- No Steve Eminger is not injured
Random stuff:
- Olli Jokinen was luckily suspended for his return to NY yesterday. I wonder what the crowd would have done if Staal hit him instead of Stajan.
- As horrible as this sounds, it kind of felt good seeing that hit after last year when the Rangers lost Drury and Dubinsky in the same game against the Flames.
- Rangers have sold out only 5 of 12 games this year. Last year they sold out every game but one (against Nashville 13,128 of 18,200 on Feb 10, wow!)
- The Rangers new alternate jerseys are sick!
- Chris Drury should boost the Rangers faceoff % by a good 3%
- Christensen’s last 5 games of TOI: 10,13,13,13,10
- The Rangers have 7 games in the next 14 days: TB (A), FLA (A), NSH (A), PIT (H), NYI (A), NYI (H), OTT (H)
- FLA/NSH is B2B and NYI’s B2B games are home and home.
- From Zipay: NYR rankings after 1 week All Star voting: Staal, 43; Lundqvist, 49; Gaborik, 57; Avery 60; Dubinsky 92; Callahan 118.From me: Callahan has 3000 less votes than BizNasty2Point0.
- Connecticut Whale (Hartford Wolf Pack) has unveiled the jerseys for their arrival:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?ai...64066240297808 In a facebook album?!
- Next Ranger game to appear on Canadian TV: Sens @ Rangers 5pm Sunday December 5th
Prospects:
- Christian Thomas is doing phenomenal in the OHL with 10 pts in his last 2 games (like the ramblings mentioned). Another Stumpy? Type in his name in ‘Google images’ if you want to see every other Christian Thomas in the world. As his points dictate, he has looked phenomenal this season...
- Thomas has 33 pts in 20 games in the O (good for 12th in the league)
- The Rangers dealt Nigel Williams today for Stu Bickel, no fantasy relevance
- Wade Redden 15 pts in 21 games, back to 50 point form...in the AHL
- Newly acquired Kolarik has 5 pts in 5 games for the Whale
- MZA the Norwegian Hobbit has 11 pts in 10 games this month. This is after 2 pts in his first 12.
- Tim Kennedy is being finely groomed for another team right now with 13 pts in 15 games in the A.
- Red flag: Grachev has 3 pts in 15 games (1 pt in last 11)
- Roman Horak had an 11 game pt streak this season, 29 in 21 games (2nd on team)
- Ryan Bourque ranks 2nd in PPG in the Q, picking up steam with 15 pts in 9 games
- Chris Kreider has 6 pts in 12 games so far this season...looks like he’s being used as a secondary forward this season for BC
- Dylan Mcilrath started the season with a dreadful -9 in his first 8. Since then, a +8. You won’t find offense in this guy as everyone should know by now
Some Ranger highlights this year:
Staal wiping out Stajan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfS4xpSjwm4
Footage of Bigfoot...I mean Boogaard’s lone goal http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5Qu4HSiofs
Nifty play by Dubinsky for Callahan’s ‘easiest tap-in of his career’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xenxq3RJbYo
Heavyweight bout between Orr and Boogaard http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqsiOcPcSlA
Wiz saying Avery does something... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JYeKEA5AoY
The ‘Suckerpunch’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNeERJeDnRM
If you like what you see, stay tuned as I’m going to be updating all year! I’ll get you guys up to the minute Rangers news and any questions I will do my best to give you the answer.