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FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet 

BY: Bruce Berlet After a stellar first season with the New York Rangers, it has been a difficult 12 months for Marian Gaborik. First, the right wing who signed a five-year, $37.5 million free-agent deal with the Blueshirts on July 1, 2009 saw his goal production plummet from 42 to 22 last season as he battled injuries while trying to…

FROM THE CREASE with BRUCE BERLET 

BY: Bruce Berlet Two busloads of New York Rangers players and officials were visibly touched Tuesday while visiting three downtown firehouses with four families selected by the Garden of Dreams Foundation to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the City That Never Sleeps. Former Hartford Wolf Pack players Ryan Callahan and All-Star Marc Staal were especially impressed…

FROM THE CREASE with BRUCE BERLET 

BY: Bruce Berlet It’s hardly been an OFF-season for Connecticut Whale/New York Rangers center Kris Newbury. First, Newbury’s wife, Amanda, gave birth to the couple’s third child, Jorja, on May 7. “The little one is growing like a weed,” proud papa said with a wide smile. Newbury also was involved in plenty of off-ice activities, mostly baseball, with 8-year-old son…

FROM THE CREASE with BRUCE BERLET 

BY: Bruce Berlet Mission accomplished for New York Rangers president and general manager Glen Sather. Sather entered the offseason hoping to keep his core of marquee players intact for at least several years, and that goal was finalized Wednesday when former Hartford Wolf Pack right wing Ryan Callahan signed a three-year, $12.825 contract, averting an arbitration hearing in Toronto on…

BACK TO THE FUTURE – CATCHING UP WITH MICHAEL DEL ZOTTO 

BY: Mitch Beck with Adam Gavriel For athletes looking to develop a professional career, the path to achieving it, in many ways, resembles the four-year high school matriculation process. As a rookie, a player enters their freshman year; the new kid on the block. Expectations are high, but there are a lot of unknowns. By an athlete’s second season, the…

FROM THE CREASE with BRUCE BERLET 

BY: Bruce Berlet And then there was one. As expected, the New York Rangers signed veteran defenseman Steve Eminger to a one-year $800,000 contract on Monday, leaving unrestricted free agent right wing Ryan Callahan as the only player that the NHL team needs to get in the fold. Eminger, 27, proved a valuable commodity working with the young Rangers defense…

FAN-FARE: BUILDING A CORE 

BY: Adam Gavriel In John Tortorella’s first off-season as Rangers’ head coach he began preaching the idea of the team developing a, “Core,” the idea of getting young and staying young, building a team together and eventually turning it into a perennial winner. That was during the 2009 off-season. Today, 2 years later, waiting for the season to begin, the…

JOHNSON COMING BACK 

New York Rangers goaltender Chad Johnson told Howlings Thursday night that he has been qualified by the Blueshirts and is working out his contract. The 25-year old native of Calgary, Alberta Canada  said he fully expects to be either with the Rangers or the CT Whale next season. Johnson has a 40-37-5 career record with the Rangers top American Hockey…

FROM THE CREASE with BRUCE BERLET 

BY: Bruce Berlet Brad Richards met the New York media for the first time Wednesday as the newest member of the Rangers and showed why his on-ice prowess isn’t the only reason he was signed to a nine-year, front-loaded, $58.5 million contract. Richards retained his low-key personality by not having a lavish press conference and quietly skated onto the Madison…

FROM THE CREASE with BRUCE BERLET 

BY: Bruce Berlet The New York Rangers plucked the cream of the free agency crop, Dallas Stars center Brad Richards, via a nine-year, $60 million contract with an annual cap hit of $6.5 million. Richards will receive $24 million in the first two years and $57 over the first six, leaving him a nice “retirement” package of $1 million in…

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