NYR/STL 11/3 Review: Fox, Garand & Kartye Lead Way; Blueshirts Bang Blues To End Four-Game Losing Streak, Highs v. Lows; Bet On Mika v. Philly, Sully’s Line-Up Changes Are Aces For One Night; Rempe & Chmelar Return/Cuylle Changes Positions, Rangers Go a Flawless 6/6 On The PK But O-Zone Penalties Aren’t a Recipe For Success Either, M$G Workers Rough Weekend Ahead; M$GN & Much More

Greetings and salutations everyone and welcome to another blog here on BlueCollarBlueShirts.com. That’s more like it.

There is an old saying in sports that goes something like, “the good teams always have to beat the teams if they want to make the playoffs.”

Whether the Rangers are a good team or not is debatable, but what can’t be argued against is that they took care of a bad team on Tuesday night at M$G in their 3-1 win versus the St. Louis Blues.

After a disappointing first period where the team only got hot once receiving a late power-play, then it was an Adam Fox goal, scored early into the second stanza, that really got the team going.

While Fox was dazzling offensively, he was also defensively standing out, including when the Blueshirts had to kill off six separate Blues’ power-plays.

And to be clear – not one of these sextet of Blueshirts’ infractions were of the dubious variety – as all of them were textbook hockey two-minute violations.

If there was a better penalty killer than the best FAT CAT on the team today, then it was none other than the rookie goaltender, Dylan Garand.

During the past two-weeks, GARAND THEFT AUTO had a few rough outings – and even if every goal allowed in that time-span wasn’t necessarily on him.

Garand, who going into this game, had to listen to the scuttlebutt that perhaps the Rangers would be better off seeking a true starting goalie in the league’s trade market – not only made eight short-handed saves against St. Louis – but also made 32 consecutive stops too.

The only goal #33 allowed on this night took place on his 33rd shot faced – and for the second time this season – a goal scored with just under a minute left in regulation, thus thwarting Garand of a shutout.

No joke, and Garand, with one shutout to his name this season (Detroit), should have a hat trick of them.

But of course, it’s about the team – and not about individual milestones.

Elsewhere, and a third period goal set-up by a new third line, one that’s now centered by Will Cuylle, led to a 2-0 tic-tac-toe insurance goal, with both Cuylle & Eeli Tolvanen assisting on what wound up becoming Oliver Bjorkstand’s game-winner.

For good measure and Tolvanen sealed the deal with a 3-0 empty netter, as he joined Fox with a two-pointer next to his name in the box score.

Only a late Pius Suter goal marred what otherwise would have been a 3-0 shutout.

The Rangers, who as noted, scored first tonight, not only snapped a four-game losing streak, but also moved to 8-1 this season whenever scoring the game’s first goal.

The Blueshirts are presently 8-7-1 in the standings, which tells you that Sully’s Squad has yet to win a game where they didn’t light the red lamp first.

Obviously, you’d like to see the Rangers score first (and win) every game, but that’s not going to happen every night during an 84-game schedule.

Also not sustainable despite its raving success on Tuesday night is giving the other team six power-plays, and where half of these man-down situations were the end result of o-zone penalties.

But alas, the good teams are supposed to beat the bad teams – and I think that’s what happened tonight – as I don’t think the Rangers could’ve given six power-plays to an upper-echelon team and then nearly shut them out too.

There was much line-up tinkering and another roster change (Jaroslav Chmelar is returned, Taylor Raddysh is back with the Pack – full details below) and it all worked out in the end – that is – for one game.

While Kartye did pick up an assist on the Fox goal, then if you just looked at his black-and-white stats – and they don’t really pop out at you.

However, from the EYE TEST, the realm of in living color – and Kartye was a beast all game – as he was constantly disrupting the Blues’ offense while continuously setting up chances for his team throughout the sixty-minute duration.

As said, then I do think the Rangers, for as good as they looked for about forty-minutes or so, weren’t exactly world beaters either.

For the majority of the first period and we were returned to the Morgue $quare Garden vibes from the past two seasons.

Such vibes were reflected at the Garden too, as the game wasn’t sold out (16,950 out of 18,006) and where tickets could be had for as little as $55.

Another thing that continues to irk me, and in something that not one beat reporter will dare touch, is the fact that Mika Zibanejad, through sixteen games (19% of the season), has only one even-strength goal to his name. His other two goals of his total of three are a power-play goal and an empty netter.

That’s just not first line center production.

Put it this way: After tonight, and a bottom-sixer like Tolvanen (4) now has more goals than Mika.

Even the sophomore Gabe Perreault (4), who usually plays on Mika’s line, has more goals than the $8.5M center too.

And would you believe me if I told you that Oliver “ARMY OF ME” Bjorkstrand now has six goals this season, second-best to only Alexis Lafreniere (9)?

Simply put: And the FAT CATS need to show up.

One win against a bad team doesn’t erase what’s been a season-long trend as we now approach the 20% mark of the season.

But no one wants to rain on a winning parade either, so it is nice to see new faces and young folk alike continue to play well, such as Garand, Kartye, Bjorkstand, Tolvanen and even Scott Morrow too, as the man of two games played this season continues to prove that he is worthy of a regular roster spot.

(Most fans would rather Morrow over Braden Schneider, while not admitting that Alberts Smits is the weakest of the three. As said all summer, then I would’ve began Smits pro career in Hartford, but Drury is trying to protect/save his job with a player that’s thought to be “NHL ready” – you know – just like how Kaapo Kakko once was!)

And when it comes to Fox, whose resume speaks for itself, then it was nice to see him returned to prime form too.

I don’t know what the Norris Trophy race will look like at the end of the season (no one can predict injuries – or slumps for that matter either), but for the 2021 winner and he’s averaging over a point-per-game with 19-points in 16 games played.

But of course, then while the people who vote on the award seem to only exclusively look at offensive numbers (how Erik Karlsson won that one year when his team was in last place, while having a plus/minus rating that was somewhere near triple digits is beyond me), but Fox’s defensive contributions should not be overlooked either – including as a signature member of one of the league’s best penalty kills.

Before proceeding into all of our usual segments, including the almighty GAME REVIEW, then in case you missed it, then here’s where I last left off, the Rangers’ 4-1 loss to the Oilers from Monday night:

NYR/EDM 11/1 Review: Rangers Drop Fourth Straight Game; Absolutely Embarrassed By a Third-String Goalie Who Hadn’t Played in 2.5 Years, Someone Get Sullivan Drug Tested; Head Coach Fine With Another Early Multi-Goal Hole, Perreault Demoted In Favor of Fat Cat Pavel “A-ROD” Dingorfeyev, Chris Drury May Be On The Hot Seat; Blueshirts Bleeding Bucks, Mopey Mika & Captain No Clutch Dress Up As Fairies For Halloween (How Fitting), League News, M$GN & More

The Rangers, following Monday night’s embarrassment, reconvened for practice at their training facility in Tarrytown on Tuesday.

In a response to another crushing loss and the head coach decided to once again tinker with his bottom-six.

In the latest wrinkle, Will Cuylle, who admittedly, has had some minimal success at the dot (53.8% this season), was removed from his usual third line left wing position and slotted in the middle.

Cuylle, following the practice, said about the change, “there are lots of times where you get switched up in the d-zone where you replace it low forward, so I think the d-zone and faceoff is really the only difference. O-zone itself, there’s no positions really.”

He’s the pro, I’m the bullshit blogger, but I’m not so sure about all of that.

As most know, the center position requires the most skating and can be the most taxing forward position of them all.

(Dave Maloney would continue to say this throughout Tuesday night’s broadcast.)

To accommodate Cullye’s new role, then Noah Laba, the team’s previous third center in all fifteen games played this season, was bumped down to the fourth line.

It is hard to argue against Laba’s demotion, as despite being defensively reliable, then he has yet to score a goal this season too.

Another change at the practice featured something that most fans were clamoring for – a promotion of Gabe Perreault to the struggling first power-play unit and a demotion of captain J.T. Miller to the team’s second man-up unit.

Miller and Sullivan, after the practice, both said they were fine with the power-play shake-up.

Of course, it was Sullivan’s decision, but the head coach made sure to point out that his captain understood why the change was required.

Here were Sullivan’s full remarks from Tuesday:

Once the practice and all media requirements were completed on Tuesday, then come 5PM and the Rangers announced that Taylor Raddysh was returned to the Hartford Wolf Pack. Recalled back to the Big Apple was Jaroslav Chmelar.

For what it’s worth and Raddysh did practice with the Rangers on Tuesday prior to this news being made.

Come Wednesday morning, GAME DAY, and the Rangers held a well-attended optional AM skate.

A few pregame notes and news came out both during and after the practice.

For starters, Sullivan confirmed that Sean Durzi, who wasn’t at either practice this week, was going to miss his second straight game.

Just to mention it, and Durzi hasn’t been placed on the team’s IR yet.

For that matter, and Joonas Korpisalo, who is skating with the team, remains on the team’s IR.

Speaking of the goalies, and Sullivan confirmed that Garand would get the net against the Blues and with James Reimer backing him up.

On the recall of Chmelar, who was announced as a go for Tuesday night, Sully remarked, “He played very well when when he was down there, and (Chris Drury) and his staff felt at this point that re-inserting into the lineup here would, based on how he was playing down there, could potentially he could help our group.”

Chmelar, who was part of the Rangers’ opening night line-up prior to being sent down to Hartford, said about his return, “I want to be all over pucks.”

It was also reported that both Matthew Robertson (yet to play this season) and Luke Glendening were the late skaters at the optional practice, suggesting that both players would be healthy scratches against St. Louis.

(And that’s what wound up happening.)

Here’s everything else that was said prior to Tuesday night’s tilt:

Here was Sullivan’s line-up for the sixteenth game of this 2026-27 campaign:

FIRST LINE: Dorofeyev/Mika/Lafreniere

SECOND LINE: Kartye/Miller/Perreault

THIRD LINE: Tolvanen/Cuylle/Bjorkstrand

FOURTH LINE: Chmelar/Laba/Rempe

FIRST PAIR: Gavrikov/Fox

SECOND PAIR: Pettersson/Schneider

THIRD PAIR: Smits/Morrow

STARTER: Garand

BACK-UP: Reimer

HEALTHY SCRATCHES: Robertson and Glendening

UNHEALTHY SCRATCH: Durzi

LTIR: Korpisalo and Veleno

SEASON ENDING LTIR: CZAR IGOR

BOX SCORE time.

The following graphics and information come from ESPN.com:

SCORING:

PENALTIES:

TEAM STATS:

GOALIES:

Just in a follow up to the story that I posted last week on this site, in regards to the Rangers losing millions upon millions of dollars under Chris Drury’s “leadership,” then it was noticeable that ticket prices fell to as low as $55 at puck drop and where most tickets were in the $65 range too:

If #nyr keep losing, then the season ticket holders will continue to get screwed. May lead to Drury’s demise too, considering the millions upon millions lost over the last 2.5 years. https://t.co/zFosK4rpJc

— BlueCollarBlueShirts (@NYCTheMiC) November 3, 2026

As predicted in this space over the summer, then it sounds like the season ticket holders will be screwed again.

Bad teams don’t make money, nor draw either.

The ones who pay the most money for ducats?

The season ticket holders – and a devout and loyal group of schmucks whose tickets haven’t been worth nearly half of their face value on the secondary market.

And it doesn’t help when the Rangers themselves undercut their season ticket holders either – and as they’ve done during the past three-seasons via random ticket promotions/discounts.

After John Giannone welcomed to us the broadcast, where he gave us about 76796966967867867896 election day puns (Eddie Gieck, of BSU, was the first person to really point this out to me), then the M$GN talking head informed us that the Rangers were honoring our military tonight.

There were no puns about the Blueshirts being bombed.

That said?

Then the Rangers get a lot wrong – more wrong than right even – but at least they always do the right thing – if not go the extra mile too – when lending their support to the NYPD, FNDY, first responders and all military personnel too.

Unlike others, including the birdbrain Blueshirt beat reporters (I’ll never forget how Wince Mercogliano said that Jacob Trouba was a hero for tweeting out “BLM,” while ignoring Henrik Lundqvist’s routine visits with the boys in blue) – and the Rangers didn’t shy away from NYPD during the height of liberal mania – the COVID-19 era.

Following Giannone’s remarks where he not only praised our armed forces, but mentioned how a slew of his family members have also serve(d), then the smug seven-foot analytical jackass, Sieve Vagistat, the worst goalie in franchise history, disgraced us with his ugly suit and presence.

And that was it for me.

Come 7PM, Dave Maloney and Kenny Albert got their first piece of face-time. After a quick preview and a salute for our troops – it was then time to drop the puck.

GAME REVIEW time.

FIRST PERIOD

As the starters, Joel Hofer and Dylan Garand, got ready in net, then Zibanejad beat Pius Suter at the dot. Some twenty-seconds later, and Hofer made the first save of the game on a Gavrikov try.

During the ensuing faceoff, then it was also noticeable how many empty seats there were at M$G.

After a Philip Broberg shot went wide, Maloney, and for whatever reason, said Garand had made his first save of the game, while preaching the virtue of such a save.

It wasn’t until the 1:45 mark when Garand actually made his first denial of the game – a glove save at that – and as he did on a Theo Lindstein shot.

An Albert Smits turnover, at the three-minute mark, led to an extended Blues’ attack, but the Blueshirts were able to survive.

At the 3:40 mark, Lafreniere missed the net from five-feet away.

At the 4:15 mark, Rempe, in his first game back in a while, screened Hofer, but the Blues’ backstop was still able to deny a blast from Gavrikov.

Come the 5:27 mark, Garand was able to put the brakes on a Mason McTavish try from a foot out.

At the 6:09 mark, Garand came up with his fourth save of the game, as once again he used the glove when holding off Dylan Holloway.

Come the 7:44 mark, the Blues got the first power-play of the game, as Scott Morrow, in his second game played this season, went off for high-sticking McTavish as the opposing skater was entering the Rangers’ zone.

Right away into the Blueshirts’ PK and Garand absolutely robbed Robert Thomas’ one-timed attempt from point-blank range. This was arguably Garand’s best stop of the game.

A few seconds later and Garand was able to rob Broberg too.

The Rangers’ PK, largely due to Garand, was now 1/1, but where it was also noticeable that the SOG counter read as STL 7, NYR 1, at the half-way mark of the period.

Some 15-seconds later, the 10:15 mark to be specific?

Then Morrow, now out of the box, registered the Rangers’ second SOG.

What improvement!

Out of a TV timeout and Kenny & Dave plugged the new-and-ugly Rangers’ “hometown remix jerseys.”

I only bring this up because Maloney had a good laugh when talking about Deuce McBride’s hair (in relation to his own) – as the Knick entered M$G last night with a Zibanejad remix jersey.

Down to 8:31 remaining and the Blues got their second power-play of the game, as Chmelar, in his first game back, was sent to the sin bin for hooking Lindstein.

The Blues didn’t get much going here (zero SOG) and come two-minutes later, the Rangers’ PK was now 2/2.

Down to 6:00 remaining and the SOG were still 7-2, in favor of STL, and where not one Ranger forward had a shot yet (Gavrikov and Morrow).

Come 5:19 remaining and the Blueshirts drew their first power-play of the game, as Lafreniere’s speed forced Lindstein into hooking #13 as he was approaching Hofer’s hole.

After a minute of doing nothing from PP1, then the new PP2 unit, led by Miller, got a flurry of chances right away, but Hofer was able to deny the captain and Cuylle.

So with 4:09 to go – and we finally had our first and second Ranger forward SOG of the game.

Down to five-seconds left on the PP and the active Kartye missed the net from dead-center.

However, come the end of the power-play and the Blueshirts’ PP, despite registering three SOG (all from PP2), was now 0/1.

Come 2:35 remaining and Hofer was now up to eight saves, after making a high blocker save on Chmelar.

With just 53.1 seconds remaining, the Blues drew their third power-play of the game, as Miller took an o-zone high-sticking penalty on Lindstein. This was a silly infraction, considering both the time and where it happened.

After a Garand save on Broberg, we remained scoreless after one period.

Here’s what I said at the time:

Nil-Nil after 20 minutes. #NYR 1P Thoughts:

— The Blues were out-shooting the Blueshirts 7-1 at the 10:00 mark. Eventually out-shot them 9-2. A late Rangers’ power-play boosted the SOG total to 9-9 prior to Broberg’s last second shot (10-9, STL, overall).

— NYR PP 0/1 – and where it was the new Miller PP2 unit that got all the GOOD LOOKS (Trademarked by Alain Vigneault).

— NYR PK 2/2 – have a minute and change on the kill to start 2P.

— Garand has been good.

— Feels like a preseason game, there wasn’t any fire until the penalty that Lafreniere drew.

SECOND PERIOD

The Blues entered this stanza with 1:07 of a power-play (Miller).

Come the 67-second mark of the period and the Rangers’ PK was now 3/3 – and where Garand came up with two nice saves (Broberg and Neighbours) on this third Blueshirts’ kill.

Not even ninety-seconds into the period and Garand had five saves.

Hofer didn’t make his first save of the period, as at the 1:49 mark Fox blasted a puck from the slot for the game’s first goal:

New York goal!

Scored by Adam Fox with 18:11 left in the 2nd. Assisted by Tye Kartye and J.T. Miller.

NYR: 1 | STL: 0

#STLvsNYR #NYR #StlBlues https://t.co/OqogKiUTXl

— NHL Goals (@nhl_goal_bot) November 4, 2026

1-0, GOOD GUYS, and with Kartye & Miller assisting on the 2021 Norris Trophy winner’s second goal of the season.

As you’d expect and this goal woke up the crowd.

On the faceoff that ensued, the Blues got control, got towards Garand but there was Rempe to break up the attack.

At the 5:30 mark, Laba made a great pass to Morrow but the d-man couldn’t finish off Hofer. This soon led to a scrum between Rempe and Broberg, but the refs were quick when breaking it up.

At the 6:10 mark Hofer was able to deny a fast shot from Perreault.

A minute later and Garand was able to make a clean glove save on a streaking Holloway.

At the 8:43 mark, a Dorofeyev-to-Lafreniere try came close, but no cigar – no smoking at M$G.

Come the half-way mark of the period/game, and Hofer left his net, but Captain No Clutch couldn’t find the 2-0 goal against the gaping hole that the goalie had left behind him.

At the 10:31 mark, Garand came up big again, as this time he stopped Broberg on a Blues’ 2 x 1 odd-man rush.

About a minute later and Garand & Co. were able to keep Fowler off of the board too.

Down to 7:40 remaining, and Zibanejad, still sitting on one even-strength goal this season, couldn’t beat Hofer when all alone against a goalie who was jerky and put himself out of position.

Come 5:02 remaining and Cuylle ate a shot from Connor McMichael. This allowed the Rangers to go on the attack and some twenty seconds later,  Zibanejad drew Neighbours for tripping, thus earning the Rangers their second power-play of the game.

It was noticeable when Sully started his second quintet, but with Fox, the PP1 quarterback, leading the way on this power-play.

These five skaters (Bjorkstrand/Kartye/Miller/Cuylle/Fox) challenged Hofer four times before changing a minute in.

Despite five SOG on this power-play (Dorofeyev had the lone SOG for PP1) and the Rangers were now 0/2 on the man-up.

Come 1:42 left, and just seconds back into full-strength play too, and Laba took the Rangers’ fourth penalty of the game, as he slashed Neighbours.

A Hofer homerun pass to Snuggerud was denied by Garand with under a minute to go in the period.

With eighteen-seconds left on the Blues’ PP, the intermission horn blared.

1-zip, Rangers, after two periods.

Here’s what I said at the time:

1-0, GOOD GUYS, through 40 minutes. 2P Thoughts:

— This upcoming Michelle Gingras segment with Jody The Dog sounds like it will be the best thing we see all game.

— Good for Adam Fox, has the GWG on record right now.

— Garand Theft Auto back?

— The Blues’ PP is 18 seconds away from going 0/4. Those are Ranger numbers (they are 0-2).

— Cuylle and Morrow, in new roles, have been solid.

— Rempe hasn’t looked lost either.

— Good on Sullivan for giving PP2 the first shift of the second power-play. They earned it.

— Can Garand & Co. cleanly finish?

THIRD PERIOD

The Rangers began this period by going a perfect 4/4 on the penalty kill.

Right after the kill and Garand made a save off the side of his glove on Holloway – his 21st stop of the match.

At the 1:17 mark the Rangers received their third power-play of the game as McMichael was called for holding Mika.

This time, the PP1 unit began this man-up attack.

Fox almost got his second goal thirty seconds into the power-play but Hofer was there with his 24th save of the match.

Thirty-seconds later and Cuylle was stopped from point-blank range.

The Rangers had their chances here, but once again, another 0-fer on the power-play, 0/3 overall and despite Hofer having to make eleven saves while shorthanded.

The fourth line, four-minutes in, almost got the insurance goal but Hofer was able to do his thing when Chmelar got to the crease.

At the 4:42 mark the Rangers put the Blues on the power-play for the fifth time as Zibanejad hooked Dalibor Dvorsky – and this was an o-zone penalty to boot.

Garand made a hell of save thirty-seconds into the kill, as he loudly denied Pavel Buchnevich.

And that was really it for this now 0/5 Blues’ power-play.

At the time, I was thinking – if only the Rangers can kill five power-plays and get a shutout every game – then they’d be undefeated!

Yes, this is my way of saying that you can’t expect these things to happen every night.

Down to 11:24 remaining and Hofer was able to prevent Gavrikov from scoring a potentially important 2-0 goal.

But that 2-0 goal was soon to come.

A failed Blues’ clear, right in front of their own net, with 10:59 remaining, allowed Bjorkstrand to finish Hofer for the 2-0, GOOD GUYS goal, after some tic-tac-toe passing from Cuylle and Tolvanen:

A gorgeous bang bang pass play and Oliver Bjorkstrand lights the lamp!

@kennyalbert | @DaveMaloneyMSG | #NYR https://t.co/jvklv11fng

— Rangers on MSG (@RangersMSGN) November 4, 2026

A Garand save on Justin Barron, with 9:52 left in regulation, brought us to our penultimate TV timeout.

Lafreniere, with 9:09 left on the clock, just missed a chance to score the Rangers’ 3-0 goal, as a puck slipped off his stick as he was streaking towards Hofer.

Neighbours then out-passed himself from scoring the Blues’ first goal, as with 7:45 to go, he turned over the puck instead of shooting at Garand’s net.

It was also mentioned around this time that the Rangers’ alum game, scheduled for Sunday, November 15th at 12:00PM, will be broadcasted on M$GN.

Talk about a crazy schedule for the hard-workin’ staff at M$G – as the loaded 11/14 UFC PPV at M$G, headlined by both a major heavyweight (Gane v. Hokit)  and women’s title (Nunes v. Harrington) fight won’t end until 1AM on early Sunday evening.

Come 6:50 to go and the Rangers seemingly put the game away, as Perreault, off a Fox rebound, high-sticked a puck, then kicked it, into Hofer’s net.

3-0, GOOD GUYS at the time – as the refs called this play as a goal.

Following a quick review and the officials erased the goal for the kicking motion.

In turn, we remained at 2-0, GOOD GUYS.

Jonatan Berggren almost broke up Garand’s shutout with 6:00 to go, but his shot found the right side of the Rangers’ netminder’s post.

Under 4:00 remaining and Garand recorded his 30th save of the contest.

Down to 2:45 left to play and Hofer left his net.

Garand made save #31 with 2:18 to go which then led to our first “DYL-AN!” chants of the game.

And with 2:01 to go, Tolvanen called game with his 3-0, GOOD GUYS, Rangers’ field goal – and his fourth of this campaign too.

Of note: Fox picked up his 17th assist of the season on this score as well.

And for the second time this season, Garand lost his shutout with under a minute to go as Suter scored the 3-1 goal.

Ugh.

For whatever reason, and Hofer remained in his own net with the deficit returned to two goals.

For good measure, then down to 21.1 seconds to go and Smits took a delay of game penalty for airmailing a puck over the glass.

With the late power-play, Hofer returned to the Blues’ bench.

Smits’ penalty ultimately was no harm, no foul.

3-1, GOOD GUYS, your final.

The four-game losing streak was snapped.

In some quotable quotes, the following:

“I thought the kill was good. I think it’s a little concerning the type of stick infractions that we’re taking game in and game out. That’s a conversation we’ve had in between periods. I got to think about next steps on that one, but we’ve got to do a better job with our responsibility with our sticks. It’s a lot to ask to have the penalty kill have to kill that many opportunities against a real good power play. I thought those guys that were on it did a terrific job.” – Mike Sullivan on the team taking six penalties.

“I just think his [Garand] resilience. He’s had a lot of really good starts for us. He’s also had a heavy workload. I think this game was an important one for him. He wanted to bounce back and have a solid night for the group, and he did. I think his resilience, just his ability to move by circumstance and not let it affect his performance or his game moving forward. Even inside of a game, if he lets in a goal that maybe he thinks he should have had, I think he has the ability to move by it.” – Sullivan on Dylan Garand

“It’s a lot. It’s my first experience going through this in the NHL, and there’s lots of things you can learn. Obviously, we play a lot of games. How to manage that physically and mentally, and all the noise kind of around the NHL, it’s new. At the end of the day, just figuring out what I want to do with my game and me as a human being — and just try and battle for the guys and help this group win.” – Garand on getting back on the winning track.

“I was excited before the game. Obviously, a challenge for me, something I’ve never done. Kind of felt a little nervous before the game, but after first couple shifts, settled in and just felt like myself.” – Will Cuylle on his center audition.

Up Next For The Rangers: Broadway v. The Broad Street Bullies on Thursday night at M$G.

After that?

A bizarre four-game road trip, as after a Saturday night stay in Seattle, the team will play in Edmonton on Monday night, Calgary on Wednesday night and then Vancouver on Friday night.

(And bust out the coffee for these late starts too.)

I use the word “bizarre” here because it makes no sense to travel from Seattle to the Albertan cities and then back to Vancouver.

Usually, and due to its close proximity, road teams usually hit Seattle and Vancouver in consecutive games.

Where are the liberal politicians in regards to the Blueshirts’ carbon footprint, am I right?

But paying the Rangers’ flight bills is no concern of mine, as instead, selling books to you is!

And of course, this segue-way leads to your favorite segment and mine, you know…

PLUGS TIME! (Buy a book and support my Rangers’ induced therapy bills. After all, I don’t run ads on this site!)

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My four-volume set of books, “One Game at a Time – A Season to Remember,” is a game-by-game recount of the Rangers 2021-22 campaign.

My second title as an author, “One Game at a Time – A Season to Remember,” is now available in eBook, paperback and hardcover formats.

To obtain signed copies, visit: https://bluecollarblueshirts.com/onegamebook/

To purchase all four volumes on Amazon, visit: Amazon.com – “One Game at a Time.”

The greatest volume-set of books on Rangers’ history today!

“Tricks of the Trade – A Century-Long Journey Through Every Trade Made In New York Rangers’ History,” a four-volume set of books that meticulously covers every trade made in franchise history, is now on sale.

All four volumes of the title can be purchased on Amazon.com and are presented in three different formats – eBook, paperback and hardcover.

To purchase Volume I: Conn Smythe (1926) – Craig Patrick (1986), visit Amazon.com

To purchase Volume II: Phil Esposito (1986) – Neil Smith (2000), visit Amazon.com

To purchase Volume III: Glen Sather (2000-2015), visit Amazon.com

To purchase Volume IV: Jeff Gorton (2015) – Chris Drury (2022), visit Amazon.com

To purchase signed copies of all four volumes, visit https://bluecollarblueshirts.com/tricksofthetrade/

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Don’t forget to order my four-volume set of books, “Tricks of the Trade!”

If you don’t order through me, all four volumes are now available on Amazon.com

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LET’S GO RANGERS!

Sean McCaffrey

BULLSMC@aol.com