by George Grimm | Dec 26, 2020 | Hockey History, Homepage, Inside Hockey, New York Rangers, Retro Rangers
At 6-1 and 185 pounds, Cal Gardner did not shy away from the physical side of the game and in 1947 he became embroiled in what was then described as the biggest, longest brawl in NHL history. Cal Pearly Gardner signed as a free agent with the Rangers in 1945 following...
by Neal McHale | Oct 7, 2020 | Boston Bruins, Homepage, New Jersey Devils, New York Rangers, NHL, Ottawa Senators, Tampa Bay Lightning, Vegas Golden Knights
For the class of 2020, Tuesday brought a certain degree of relief as much as it did clarity. Since the pause of the 2019-20 regular season and the subsequent trickle-down in nearly every other major, competitive, organized hockey league across the globe due to...
by Neal McHale | Oct 6, 2020 | Homepage, New Jersey Devils, New York Rangers, NHL
We’ve arrived to the pinnacle of the NHL offseason: the draft and free agency. More moves and team-defining decisions are made this week than any other time during the regular season. Of course, this offseason timeline remains in flux making this potentially the...
by George Grimm | Sep 17, 2020 | Hockey History, Homepage, Inside Hockey, New York Rangers, NHL, Retro Rangers
Tim Ryan graduated from Notre Dame University in 1960 with a journalism degree, in hope of becoming a newspaper reporter. He began working at the Toronto Star but was intrigued when he heard that a new commercial television network called CTV was coming to Canada....
by George Grimm | Aug 6, 2020 | Hockey History, Homepage, Inside Hockey, New York Rangers, NHL, Retro Rangers
Edgar Laprade was considered by many to be the best senior hockey player in Canada during the early 1940s. Laprade began playing junior hockey with his hometown Port Arthur, Ontario, Bruins at the age of 16 in 1935. Three years later he moved up to senior hockey and...
by Neal McHale | Aug 5, 2020 | Homepage, New York Rangers, NHL
Facing elimination, the Rangers needed to pull out all the stops to get passed Carolina and prolong their season to avoid being the first of 24 teams to exit the bubble. But even with a change in the pipes and their first lead of the series, it wasn’t enough to...
