Don't Mess With The Metro

Hockey in Pittsburgh has always been different, home to the black and gold that’s been laced into NHL history. It’s not just the colors, its the players who have been attached to its history, Paul Coffey, Marc-Andre Fleury, Jaromir Jagr, Mario Lemieux, and now its emerging icons. The current squad is pretty good too, Sidney Crosby, Kris Letang, Oll...

Konecny, Giroux sink Rangers in Overtime

After a thrilling 3 periods the Rangers and Flyers entered overtime tied at 3. Late in overtime Travis Konecny threw a rebound on net, which snuck past Ondrej Pavelec giving the Flyers a 4-3 win. Sam Morin and David Desjardins were the most notable players tonight, both put in very respectable performances. For the Rangers, this marks ...

Lundqvist...well pulls a Lundqvist at MSG

Familiar Sight for Flyers and Rangers fans? Yep. Another Flyers/Rangers battle ended the same way many of them have with Lundqvist stealing the show. Although preseason, Lundqvist looked sharp making 37 saves on 39 shots in the OT win for NYR. Filip Chytil again impressed for the Rangers, with many feeling he’ll ma...

Two years, Two Cups, 49 goals, 80 assists and 213 Games Played. Phil Kessel boasts an impressive resume while playing in Pittsburgh however could the 29 year old need that resume for a job search sometime this offseason? The answer: quite possibly. Although the famed “HBK’ line carried the Penguins to the 2016 cup, Phil Kessel and Co. struggled to have the same chemistry on the ice this year. Sidney Crosby was ...

Let me spoil 2 things for you right off the bat. Mika Zibanejad will resign with the New York Rangers this summer and Mika Zibanejad will play 1C minutes for the Rangers this season. After being acquired from Ottawa in a swap for Derick Brassard with picks going both ways, Zibanejad had gotten off to a great start scoring 15 points in the first 19 games. However unfortunately on November 20th in overtime vs Florida, Mika broke his fibula a...

It is obvious that the New York Rangers currently have holes in their lineup and it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the trade with Arizona helped attribute to that. But, the trade sending center Derek Stepan and backup goaltender Antti Raanta to the desert helped to clear up just about $20 million in total for the blueshirts, but what could the now-free cap space entail?

Well first, let&...