SIGNINGS COMING
The New York Rangers have re-signed centerman Erik Christensen. It looked there like the journeyman center, who worked his way up to first line center last season with the Rangers was resigned after initially rejecting the Rangers previous offer. What…
FIRST NEW PLAYER FOR HARTFORD
The Rangers have made their first big signing today as they ink one of their prime draftees, forward Derek Stepan who is likely headed to Hartford. Here’s the official release: RANGERS AGREE TO TERMS WITH FORWARD DEREK STEPAN New York Rangers…
HERE TODAY…GONE TODAY…
The New York Rangers apparently feel they have enough defenseman in the stable as they have traded former first round pick, Bobby Sanguinetti to the Carolina Hurricanes for a second round pick in next year’s draft, which was originally Washington’s pick…
WITH THE TENTH PICK…
The New York Rangers select defenseman Dylan McIlrath, a 6’2” 212-pounder out of Winnipeg, Manitoba. McIlrath is a bruising defenseman who led the Western Hockey League in fighting majors with 18. TSN’s Bob McKenzie had McIlrath ranked 15th prior to the…
NEWBURY COMING BACK
After arriving from Detroit in the trade that sent the popular Jordan Owens out west, Kris Newbury demonstrated that he could be a key contributor to the Hartford Wolf Pack and potentially to the NY Rangers by playing a hard, aggressive style with the…
BYERS BACK…OR IS HE?
The New York Rangers announced today that they have resigned restricted free agent and last year’s Hartford Wolf Pack captain, Dane Byers. That’s the good news. The bigger question becomes where Byers, 24, plays. Byers has been mentioned several times,…
A WHALE OF A MOVE…
A lot of people have been sending us emails requesting information on our thoughts about the news that came out of Hartford yesterday from Howard Baldwin and his attempts to bring the spot light back onto Hartford hockey. Obviously the goal is to bring…
MOVES…MOVES…MOVES
It seems like déjà-vous to us, but the worst kept secret in Ranger-land was finally made official Wednesday as the team signed forward Mats Zuccarello Aasen from MODO of the Swedish Elite League. Aasen has the nickname Hobbit because he’s listed at 5’9”…
WEISE CALLED UP
Dale Weise has been called up by the New York Rangers replacing Corey Locke who returns to Hartford. Weise told Howlings that he was told by Ken Gernander after the Wolf Pack head coach received a call on the bus ride back from Springfield from Rangers…
GOALTENDER IN THE MIST
The Rangers have announced that they have signed goaltender Cameron Talbot out of the University of Alabama-Huntsville. I would expect that the organization will look at one or two other netminders before the start of training camp next fall. Chad…