RANGERS AND WHALE BOTH LOSE BY 4-1 SCORES

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NEW YORK RANGERS POST-GAME NOTES
March 23, 2012 (Game 74, Home Game 38)
Madison Square Garden – New York, NY

Team Notes:

• The Rangers were defeated by the Buffalo Sabres, 4-1, tonight at Madison Square Garden, to finish their seven-game homestand with a 4-3-0 mark.
• New York has posted a record of 46-21-7 (99 pts.) overall, including a 26-10-2 mark at home.
• The Rangers have posted a combined record of 16-4-5 in back-to-back games, including an 8-2-3 (3-1-0 at home, 5-1-3 on the road) record in the first game of the set.
• The Blueshirts’ penalty kill was 1-1 (2:00) against the Sabres tonight, and have now held their opponent scoreless in nine of the last 12 games (30-33, 90.9%) and are 35-39 (89.7%) in the last 14 contests.

PREDATORS CAGED

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NEW YORK RANGERS POST-GAME NOTES

January 17, 2012 (Game 44, Home Game 20)

Madison Square Garden – New York, New York

 

 

	1st	2nd	3rd	T	Click Here For:
Nashville Predators	0	0	0	0	Game Summary
New York Rangers	1	1	1	3	Event Summary

Team Notes:

– The Rangers defeated the Nashville Predators, 3-0, tonight at Madison Square Garden, and are now 12-3-0 in their last 15 games.

– New York has posted a record of 29-11-4 (62 pts) on the season, including a 14-4-2 mark at home.  The Blueshirts sit atop the NHL standings, two points ahead of Chicago and St. Louis, and have opened a three-point gap over Boston for first place in the Eastern Conference standings.

RANGERS GET GOMEZ’S REVENGE NORTH OF THE BORDER

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NEW YORK RANGERS POST-GAME NOTES
January 15, 2012 (Game 43, Away Game 24)
Bell Centre – Montreal, Quebec

1st   2nd   3rd   OT   Final
New York Rangers            1        0          0          –          1
Montreal Canadiens        1        3          0          –          4

Team Notes:

–        The Rangers were defeated by the Montreal Canadiens, 4-1, tonight at Bell Centre to end their four-game road winning streak, and are now 10-3-0 in their last 13 games away from MSG.

SPOTLIGHT: SOUNDING OUT THE TIGERS

BY: Bruce Berlet

After a well-earned four-day break, the Northeast Division-leading Connecticut Whale looks to extend their latest points streak to four games when they visit their intrastate rival Bridgeport Sound Tigers on Monday night.

The Whale headed to the Christmas hiatus off a dramatic 3-2 victory over the Adirondack Phantoms on Wednesday night, on defenseman Pavel Valentenko’s 50-foot laser with 16.2 seconds left off a faceoff win by veteran center Kris Newbury. Defenseman Brendan Bell, who assisted on all three Whale goals, touched the puck to Valentenko for the second winner of his life, the first coming only nine games earlier in a 4-2 win over the Hershey Bears on Nov. 29.

RANGERS ANNIHILATE PANTHERS

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NEW YORK RANGERS POST-GAME NOTES

December 11, 2011 (Game 27, Home Game 12)

Madison Square Garden – New York, New York 

 

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Florida Panthers	1	0	0	–	1	Game Summary
New York Rangers	2	4	0	–	6	Event Summary

Team Notes:

–        The Rangers defeated the Florida Panthers, 6-1, tonight at Madison Square Garden, to sweep their weekend back-to-back set.  The Blueshirts out-scored their opponents, 10-2, during the weekend set.

2,500

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NEW YORK RANGERS POST-GAME NOTES
December 10, 2011 (Game 26, Away Game 15)
First Niagara Center – Buffalo, NY

                                                1st   2nd   3rd   OT   Final
New York Rangers               0      2        2       –      4
Buffalo Sabres                      0      1        0       –      1

Team Notes:

–        The Rangers defeated the Buffalo Sabres, 4-1, tonight at First Niagara Center, to record the 2,500th victory in franchise history.  The Blueshirts are the fifth franchise in NHL history to reach the 2,500 win milestone.

ANOTHER CHARACTER WIN FOR WHALE

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Say what you will about the 2011-2012 version of the Connecticut Whale, but this is a team of character. They find ways to win late; they find ways to win games early, they can win games ugly and they can win games like they did Friday night when they visited the Dunkin Donuts Center in Providence, Rhode Island and in front of a good crowd of 7,352 just beat up the last place Bruins 4-1 with a total team effort from the net on out.

Chad Johnson, (28 saves, 7-3-2) was the games first star making several strong stops and only a shot that he had no chance on, a short-handed Zach Hamill third period goal was able to get by him.

RANGERS CALM HURRICANES

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NEW YORK RANGERS POST-GAME NOTES
December 1, 2011 (Game 22, Away Game 13)
RBC Center – Raleigh, North Carolina

                                                      1st   2nd   3rd   OT   Final
New York Rangers               1      3        1       –      5
Carolina Hurricanes            2      1        0      –      3

SPOTLIGHT: WHO’S PLAYING AND WHERE?

BY: Bruce Berlet

Connecticut Whale defenseman Pavel Valentenko is sometimes self-conscious about his English.

But the personable Russian has certainly improved on the official language of the United States since arriving in Hartford two years ago. And he was right on in the clearest terms Tuesday night, when asked why the Whale has won five of six games to move into first place in the Northeast Division.

HAGELIN GAINING STEAM IN RANGERS WIN

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NEW YORK RANGERS POST-GAME NOTES

November 26, 2011 (Game 20, Home Game 8)

Madison Square Garden – New York, New York

 

 

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Phila. Flyers	0	0	0	–	0	Game Summary
NY Rangers	0	1	1	–	2	Event Summary

Team Notes:

–        The Rangers defeated the Philadelphia Flyers, 2-0, today at Madison Square Garden to extend their home winning streak to six games, and have now won their last two contests overall.

–        New York improved to 12-5-3 (27 pts) on the season, including a 6-1-1 record at home.