The New York Rangers announced today that left wing, Wojtek Wolski will be out for four weeks with a sports hernia. He will undergo surgery tomorrow in Philadelphia.
According to the press release, when Wolski returns, he will be playing his 400th NHL game.
Wolski has 2 assists this season in six appearances and is 9 goals away from his 100th career NHL goal.
Monday, November 7, 2011
Memo To Rangers Fans: Time To Get Girardi Apparel At MSG
The New York Rangers are a team that has certain lynchpins that hold the whole thing together. When you think of those players Lundqvist, Callahan, Staal are the first three that come to mind for me. Obviously the work of Gaborik, Richards and Dubinsky are keys to success of the team along with continuing emergence of Ryan McDonagh and Michael Sauer defensively. The guy that is as big to the team as anyone is Dan Girardi.
If Ryan Callahan is the epitome of what the Rangers want to be as an identity, then Dan Girardi is right there with him. No player in the league blocks more shots than Girardi who every game is seemingly limping at least twice from a blocked shot but continues to return to the ice on his next shift. He has done this as a top pair defender on the Rangers for the past three seasons without the proper recognition, at least outside of the locker room. He is the unquestioned leader of the defense corps that is surviving the loss of All-Star Marc Staal for an indefinite amount of time. In Staal's absence this year, Girardi has taken his game to another level leading the league in ice time (27:58), while chipping in seven points (2G, 5A) and doing his normal thing blocking shots (34) and hitting the opposition (27).
Yet with all that Girardi has done and is doing this season there is no recognition of him inside Madison Square Garden in terms of merchandise in the team store. It might seem silly to worry about something like that, but with all that Girardi has done for this team you would think that the stands could stand to have few less Lundqvist, Callahan or Dubinsky shirts/jersey's and a few more Girardi. I do not begrudge anyone of their favorite player, but it is time we start giving Girardi some love commensurate with the work he puts in for us.
From what I have been told, the reason that no Girardi merchandise is available in the stores at MSG is because it is not a requested item by the fans. Time for us to change that fact. Making that happen is very simple. Next time you are at MSG for a Rangers game take a few minutes to walk into a store and tell someone working there that you are requesting the Rangers start making Dan Girardi apparel. If you want go ahead and ask for some other players as well since McDonagh, Sauer, Anisimov, and the best backup in the league Martin Biron deserve some love as well, but in my opinion at least Girardi not having one at this point is simply wrong.
I created a facebook page just so you can share it with friends and fellow Rangers fans to spread the word in order to get Girardi a little piece of recognition that he deserves showing we respect all he does on the ice.
If Ryan Callahan is the epitome of what the Rangers want to be as an identity, then Dan Girardi is right there with him. No player in the league blocks more shots than Girardi who every game is seemingly limping at least twice from a blocked shot but continues to return to the ice on his next shift. He has done this as a top pair defender on the Rangers for the past three seasons without the proper recognition, at least outside of the locker room. He is the unquestioned leader of the defense corps that is surviving the loss of All-Star Marc Staal for an indefinite amount of time. In Staal's absence this year, Girardi has taken his game to another level leading the league in ice time (27:58), while chipping in seven points (2G, 5A) and doing his normal thing blocking shots (34) and hitting the opposition (27).
Yet with all that Girardi has done and is doing this season there is no recognition of him inside Madison Square Garden in terms of merchandise in the team store. It might seem silly to worry about something like that, but with all that Girardi has done for this team you would think that the stands could stand to have few less Lundqvist, Callahan or Dubinsky shirts/jersey's and a few more Girardi. I do not begrudge anyone of their favorite player, but it is time we start giving Girardi some love commensurate with the work he puts in for us.
From what I have been told, the reason that no Girardi merchandise is available in the stores at MSG is because it is not a requested item by the fans. Time for us to change that fact. Making that happen is very simple. Next time you are at MSG for a Rangers game take a few minutes to walk into a store and tell someone working there that you are requesting the Rangers start making Dan Girardi apparel. If you want go ahead and ask for some other players as well since McDonagh, Sauer, Anisimov, and the best backup in the league Martin Biron deserve some love as well, but in my opinion at least Girardi not having one at this point is simply wrong.
I created a facebook page just so you can share it with friends and fellow Rangers fans to spread the word in order to get Girardi a little piece of recognition that he deserves showing we respect all he does on the ice.
Photo: "Closest Thing" to Flyers Winter Classic Jersey
Posted by Greg Wyshynski at PuckDaddy a new leak has been released of the Flyers Winter Classic Jersey.
While it is NOT the actual jersey, insiders have said it is the closest thing to the real jersey that they have seen.
While it is NOT the actual jersey, insiders have said it is the closest thing to the real jersey that they have seen.
Rangers' Anisimov Continues To Grow Before Our Eyes
Artem
Anisimov an excellent sophomore season with the New York Rangers last year
watching his production go from 28 points (12G, 16A) to 44 points (18G,
26A). Anisimov found a home playing with
Brandon Dubinsky and Ryan Callahan on the team’s best line last season. The performance of that trio led to lofty
expectations for all three entering the season.
Anisimov showed in training camp/during the preseason that he has put in
the work to get stronger and work on the flaws in his game, but the results
were not showing early.
His
individual play was good, however the line was struggling to produce anything
on the scoreboard. Callahan and Dubinsky were not playing their
typical style of game and that even more than the lack of scoring was what
cause coach John Tortorella to start tinkering with the line. Anisimov was the victim of the line being
broken up because Tortorella had seemed averse to putting him with Gaborik on
the top line. Once Anisimov fell out of
the top six he ended up being pushed to the fourth line.
Anisimov
continued to work and finally got his first goal of season Monday against San
Jose on a tremendous backhand shot high
over the shoulder. The work and effort Anisimov put in while waiting
for his chance to get more ice time while playing higher in the lineup has now
paid off. The most recent groin injury
to Wojtek Wolski afforded him that opportunity and Anisimov is playing like he
has no intention of going anywhere from his spot alongside Derek Stepan and
Marian Gaborik. In two games the
23-year-old forward has four assists and is showing excellent chemistry with
both Stepan and Gaborik. The four points
for Anisimov have him third on the team with eight points thus far (1G, 7A) and
as long as he continues to play at the level he has been at the last two those
numbers are going to continue to rise.
The
constant improvement in all facets of the game that Artem Anisimov continues to
make seems to get overlooked by the media and the fans of the New York
Rangers. Last year the talk centered on Dubinsky and Callahan for the work the line did and in the past two games it was about Stepan and Gaborik. All four of those other players deserve the attention they get, but Anisimov should get some credit for what those lines accomplished as well. Each year Anisimov adds to his game and the
23-year-old has become a player more than capable of hanging with top line
players on both ends of the ice. Add a quicker release to his added strength, good skating, quality vision/passing and lethal shot off the rush and you have a force to be reckoned with. The
consistency in production on the scoreboard is still coming, but there is
nothing about the development of this young Russian forward that should be
taken for granted.
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