Olli Jokinen For Dummies Video : Matthew Barnaby Calls Jokinen A Hockey Cancer

 

The Rangers got Olli Jokinen and Brandon Prust in exchange for Ales Kotalik and Christopher Higgins. The deal was primarily done to free up cap space at the end of this season. 

Kotalik was miserable under coach Tortorella and demanded a trade as we first reported on Blueshirt Banter Radio. Kotalik's contract has him making 3 million per over the next two and a half seasons. 

Higgins makes 2.25 per season and will be a UFA at the end of this current campaign,  Olli Jokinen a former first round pick is a bit of a problem child who earns 5 million a year, but he also will be a UFA at the end of the 2009-2010 season.

Jokinen at this point is a rental and one that could possibly help the Rangers offensively this season but for the long term, his days as a Bluehshirt are numbered.  

Kotalik's and Jokinen's involvement in the trade satiates both teams quest to get these absurdly paid underachievers off their respective clubs.

The Mouth of course serves up his own sardonic take on the whole deal in the video and also adds a clip at the end where Matthew Barnaby was involved in some controversy after he unleashed some harsh words about Jokinen when Calgary first acquired him from the Panthers.

Tonight On Blueshirt Banter Radio New York Ranger Royalty Emile "The Cat" Francis joins us as our guest along with longtime beat writer (1960's-80's) for the Rangers Jerry Eskanazi.

The Mouth and Jim are doing Three Hours of commercial free Internet radio so we can get all your views and opinions on the recent trade as well as get in all the stories by a true Hockey legend Emile "The Cat" Francis.

Show Starts at 8 PM EST Tonight !

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Monday Night Hockey 1980 : Barry Beck The Destroyer Of Men

Yes, Ladies and gentleman the NHL in the late 70's and early 80's attempted to introduce Monday Night Hockey via the syndicated route to fans all across America.

The game featured in the video is a contest that saw the Rangers host the Minnesota North Stars at Madison Square Garden on December 1st, 1980.

This telecast was a big deal in the city because other than in Manhattan , you were most likely never going to see a televised Ranger Home game. 

This game was broadcast on Channel 9 WOR, a channel that everyone in the metropolitan area could access.

Ranger home games simply weren't available through cable in the other Four boroughs at that time.  

Fortunately or unfortunately for The Mouth he grew up on Long Island and for some reason the Big Man got to see all the Rangers home games thanks to Suffolk Cablevision.

Of course Rangers fans couldn't wait for this particular  Monday Night contest in order to watch their beloved Rangers don the blue jerseys at home live inside Madison Square Garden.

One of the hi-lites of this game is a bone jarring hit delivered by Barry Beck on an unsuspecting Mike Eaves. 

Barry Beck was the hardest hitter in Ranger history, bar none.

Dan Girardi Tests Positive For Estrogen While Gabby Gets Pummeled

The Mouth was so sick when he viewed this he nearly threw up several chocolate chip black and white cookies he consumed watching it with his fellow Ranger fans.

The Big man  was at the Foxwood Casino Viewing Party with about 300 other befuddled Ranger com-padres that was held on January 21st, 2010.

Rather than actually give you a description of what the Big Man thinks about the lack of respect for a fellow teammate that Daniel Girardi has concerning Marian Gaborik.

We here think the headline and the video pretty much sum up how The Mouth feels about the pummeling Gaborik got that night, while every Ranger watched.

Dan Blackburn On Blueshirt Banter Radio Tonight Live w/ The Mouth and Jim

Dan Blackburn who's promising Ranger career was cut short by nerve damage in his shoulder, will join us live tonight to talk about his playing days as a Blueshirt and a whole lot more. It's hard to believe but Dan is only 26, even after all this time.

Dan is presently a goalie instructor who has recently been involved in teaching various youth goaltending clinics for the Rangers organization.

We will be taking you calls as always, stop on by and say hi to Dan.

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Truth Machine Phil Esposito Crucifies Penguin's Moe Mantha: Rangers vs. Penguins 3/13/86

This broadcast in the Mouth's opinion is a real gem. The game is not so hot, although it does provide some rare footage of Blueshirt goals by both Raimo Helminen and Bobby Crawford. 

The clip is more about the frankness and absolute candor that Phil Esposito brought to the Rangers broadcast. I assure you Phil wasn't doing a shtick, this is the way Phil was and still is. 

Phil provides some real chuckles when he calls Moe Mantha "stupid" and seems to be obsessed with Moe Mantha's horrible plays rather than be focused on the two terrific goals, scored  by those two obscure Rangers that night. 

The Big man would also like you to take notice of Sam Rosen alluding to the Penguins setting their attendance record that year by averaging 12,000 people per game. 

A year which incidentally was Mario Lemieux's second season in the NHL

For you people scoring at home, the Rangers blew the two goal lead and the game wound up in a 2-2 tie.

Donald Brashear Suffers Excedrin Headache # 9 at Hands of Matt Carkner

The Rangers took on the Ottawa Senators last night in a game that was all around brutal to watch for a Ranger fan.

The game saw the Blueshirts go two consecutive games without scoring any goals and to add insult to injury, our geriatric enforcer Donald "The Big Rig" Brashear got his clock cleaned with one powerful shot to the kisser by Senator's fighter on skates Matt Carkner.

Before all you Ranger fans go screaming for Gigantor Colton Orr's help and how he would have dealt with Carkner, Orr basically met the same fate against Carkner on December 14th falling to the ice hard and heavy.

Although with one caveat Colton Orr had dismantled Carkner in a previous hook up on November 17th.

As per usual The Mouth calls the fight.

The Mouth & Jim w/ EX- Ranger Bob Brooke and NYR Prospect Guru Jess Rubenstein

The Wednesday Night show went off without a hitch as the program featured two terrific guests.

The show got off to a great start as Jess Rubenstein of The Prospect Park blog and Blueshirt Bulletin joined us to discuss the progress of our drafted players now playing in college and juniors.

Players discussed where Chris Doyle, Ethan Werek, Tomas Kundratek, Chris Kreider, Derek Stephan, and Ryan Bourque

Te second half of the hour we were joined by Bob Brooke who was instrumental in leading the Rangers all the way to the semi-finals in the 1985-1986 season.

Bob a former U.S Olympian, who played under Herb Brooks for two different NHL teams, shared stories of his time here as a Ranger as well as gave us some interesting thoughts on the game of hockey as it is played today.


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Rangers Face Off Against Flyers Pre-Season 1982 : Sam Rosen's Hair Helmet In Regular Season Form

Back in the day, even Pre-Season Ranger vs. Flyers games had juice. Both fans of the respective teams and the players themselves just couldn't wait till the regular season to renew the rivalry, so they used pre-season games to settle old scores and even create new ones.

The Mouth cranks up the old crisis time machine and churns out an exhibition game that saw the Rangers take on the Flyers at Madision Square Garden from September 29th, 1982.

The entire game saw both teams playing a spirited and well played affair. All six goals scored by both teams on that night are shown as the Rangers came back from a 3-1 deficit to tie.

This broadcast also has a subtext of wacky hair. Check out Sam's hair helmet and Ron Duguay's Samoan wrestler perm.

P.A Parenteau to be Our Guest on Blueshirt Banter Radio after Devil game Tonight at 9:30 PM

                                   

Due to some cimcumstances beyond our control we couldn't hookup with P.A on this particular night, But what we did manage to do was hookup with some great Ranger callers. 

The fans were eager to talk about the Rangers focused effort in the 1-0 skills competition loss to the Devils that night

The Mouth apologizes for the internet inconvenience and hopefully we can get P.A on the show in the upcoming couple of weeks

To catch the broadcast live or archived click here

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Sean Avery " I Get Paid By Two Teams" Avery has last Laugh With Four Point Game vs. Dallas Stars

Sean Avery had his best game as a Ranger this season on Wednesday night against his former team the Dallas Stars. Sean had the ultimate revenge on a team that wanted him off their squad so badly last year, they gave him to the Rangers and then agreed to pay half his salary.

Sean had an awesome game, scoring one goal and adding three assists, recording his first four point game of his career.

The Mouth would like to thank Sean Avery for bringing to the game an attitude that is sorely missing from Rangers hockey and the NHL in general and it's called emotion.

Dallas was off their game from the start because of Avery, even before Sean started working his black magic.

James Neal a terrific player for Dallas elbowed Lundqvist early in the first rather than concentrating on scoring which Neal does best.

He and Brad Richards were pre-occupied with Avery the whole game. The Stars were itching to start trouble, instead of concentrating on the task at hand.

This is when Sean Avery is at his finest. He is a game changer, and The Big Man feels let him loose, no matter what the consequences are during the game or after. On most nights you are going to come up smelling like roses.

After the game Sean did not disappoint with the quotes.

It wasn't as toxic as his infamous "Sloppy Seconds" or "Jarome Iginla is boring", but The Mouth is sure after watching the video it will provide Ranger fans with a chuckle.

Ranger Rally Pregame Show Starts at 5:30 PM EST : Dallas Stars On Broadway

As you know by now the Mouth hosts the best New York Ranger Pre-game show on planet earth. Tonight show is no different as this edition of Blueshirt Banter Radio's Ranger Rally adventures into uncharted waters of Ranger discussion.

No player charity fluff pieces  here folks !

The Mouth spews forth right up till game time at 7PM when the Rangers take on the Dallas Stars.

Now that the Team USA has claimed gold in the World Junior Championships (as The Mouth predicted) combined with his beloved Rangers actually winning a home game on Monday Night against the Boston Bruins, to say the very least the Big Man is revved and ready to go.

Please join us in this can't miss, pregame show.

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Ex-Ranger John Ogrodnick On Our Radio Show Tonight at 8 PM

Former Ranger John Ogrodnick joins The Mouth and Jim Tonight On Blueshirt Banter Radio. John had a pretty formidable goal scoring season with The Rangers in 1989-1990 scoring 43 goals. Johnny O. in his career wound up with a total of 402 NHL goals. This ranks John up there with some of the highest scoring Left Wings of all time.

In our Hartford Wolf Pack Spotlight, brought to you by Crossroads Consulting, our friend Mitch Beck of Howlings.net will be bringing us a special guest in Hartford Wolf Pack agitator Devin DiDiomete. The rough and tumble DiDiomete has amassed 71 Penalty Minutes in only 17 games.

This promises to be a great show of both past and present Ranger talk, You can show the live at 8 PM or listen to the podcast by clicking here :

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Rangers Show No Mercy April 27th 1986 : MSG Crowd Whipped Into Ape Frenzy

In a galaxy far, far away almost 25 years ago. Madison Square Garden Rocked before Mark Messier, and Brian Leetch even got a chance to.

They don’t talk about it much on MSG network because as far as they are concerned Ranger History started n 1994. That’s why we have The Mouth. To crank up the time machine and bring us these gems.

This video provided is one of the loudest, raucous Ranger games in history. The game took place on April 27th,1986 as the Rangers took on the Washington Capitals in Game Six of the Patrick Division Finals.

Enjoy watching, John Vanbeisbrouk make spectacular saves and marvel at the mighty Pierre Larouche who single handily sends the MSG crowd into a complete and utter ape frenzy.

It was one of those rare Nights the Rangers showed No Mercy and sent the Washington Capitals to the golf course.

Pictures Of Sean Avery and Girlfriend Hilary Rhoda Skating At Central Park Rink

 

A couple days ago The Mouth reported that Sean Avery invited Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Hilary Rhoda to the Rangers Christmas party in Central Park, and the two lovebirds later went for a skate on Wollman Rink.

Above are the pics of said rendezvous.

Chris Kreider Rangers #1 Draft Pick To Talk with The Mouth Today at 1:30 PM

The Mouth and his radio partner Jim Schmiedeberg will get a chance to interview USA World Junior Chris Krieder, fresh off his hat trick against Latvia on Tuesday.

Chris was the Rangers number one pick in last years draft and was selected 19th overall. Chris currently attends Boston College.

The Mouth will talk to Chris about a myriad of subjects, including Chris's outstanding efforts and the great play of other Ranger prospects such as Derek Stepan, Ryan Bourque so far in the tournament, where team USA has looked sharp.

The show airs at a special time today Wednesday 12/30 at 1:30 and comes one day before the big game against the Canadian World Junior Team, boy would The Mouth love to see USA beat Canada.

The 3-0 Americans will take on 3-0 Canada at 7 p.m. Thursday. The winner will get a bye into the semifinals, while the loser has to play a quarterfinal game.

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Wolfpack's Dale Weise To Talk With The Mouth & Jim Tonight

Tonight at 8 PM On Blueshirt Banter Radio The Mouth & Jim will be talking to Dale Weise, a 22 year old Right Winger who is currently playing for the Rangers AHL affiliate Hartford Wolfpack.

Dale was the Rangers 4th Round Pick in 2008. be sure to tune in and learn about Dale who a lot of Ranger fans think should be up with the Big club right now.

The Interview was arranged by our good friend Mitch Beck over at the Wolfpack's Unofficial Blog "Howlings." Mitch will also be joining us on the show.

To tune into the show live or on Podcast

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Sean Avery Has a New Girlfriend Her Name is Hilary Rhoda

The Mouth is getting all TMZ on us as he is reporting through his not so secret sources that the Rangers pugnacious Sean Avery is dating 22 year old model Hilary Rhoda.

Although The Mouth's posts are usually used to speculate on hockey trades and such, the Big man has decided to go all Liz Smith on us.

It seems Sean Avery has been previously seen with Ms. Rhoda in past months hitting the NYC bars and just most recently took Hilary as his date to the Ranger Christmas party held in Central Park.

Sean was seen later canoodling with the Sports Illustrated swimsuit model at Wollman Rink.

Feeling all festive, The Mouth delivers a video introducing this fine young lass to all the Ranger and Sean Avery fans out there.

Which for the most part are all one in the same.

Tomorrow night The Mouth and Jim talk to Dale Weise, a rugged winger who plays currently for the Ranger AHL affiliate the Hartford Wolfpack. Dale is the type of player who a lot of fans think should be up with the Rangers right now. The show starts at 8 PM. As always we take phone your calls.

Catch it live or on the Podcast here

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Blueshirt Banter Radio Ranger Rally : Rangers vs. Panthers 12/23

Blueshirt Banter Radio Ranger Rally Program : 90 Jam packed Minutes of Ranger pre-game discussion and infotainment that took you up to game time of the Rangers/Panthers game that took place on December 23rd.

Subjects that were discussed : Rozsival's improved play, Avery's Pest Level, Chris Drury's awakening from his slumber and many other hot button issues

Listen to Podcast of The Mouth and Mandar on this live Pre-game Broadcast that saw the Rangers win 4-1 !

Moe, Larry & Schremp : Rangers On Three Stooges Winning Streak after Clobbering Islanders

On December 17th the New York Rangers waylaid the Hempstead club with a Five goal barrage the likes of which no Rangers fan has seen since November 23rd’ victory against the Columbus Blue Jackets at MSG where the Rangers scored an unfathomable seven goals.

Anytime the Rangers can get any kind of secondary scoring it’s worth a special video in the Mouth’s opinion, so he conjured up one for us.

Since the Rangers five goal outburst against the floundering fish sticks the Rangers have won two in a row against some weak opponents, but at least the most pessimistic Ranger fan now has the feeling that this Ranger team may be bad, but not Carolina bad.

The Mouth lends his commentary to the five goal video

Dateline... Bizarro World : Michal Rozsival a Hero & Chris Drury a Hot Commodity

Tonight the Mouth and his alternate universe self (shown above) do battle as the Islanders come to the Garden to faceoff against the Rangers.

The Mouth will be hosting a special Pre-Game 90 minute Blueshirt Banter Radio Ranger Rally program. Tonight's game is war !

Join the Mouth as he amps up himself and his listeners for this big game against the Islanders.

Showtime starts at 5:30 PM and Runs till 7 PM

To join the Mouth and Listen to the show

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In a playoff game that took place between the Rangers and Buffalo Sabres in 2007 that at present many would consider took place in bizzaro world,  Michal Rozsival was a Ranger hero, and Chris Drury was an opposing player every team including the Blueshirts would have loved to have.

Three years later these hero’s are zero’s and at present, the Rangers can’t get these players out of town fast enough.

The game in question took place on April 29th, 2007 at Madison Square Garden and was an exciting Double overtime Game 3 affair in which the Rangers won on a Michal Rozsival goal while then Buffalo Sabre Chris Drury was winning face-offs and doing all the things that at the time made him a hot commodity.

Even with that said, this is definitely won of the Biggest wins since Glen Sather has been the GM, and the perfect rallying video for the Rangers to wake up and win against the Hempstead club tonight.

March 4th 1981 Rangers vs. Edmonton 5-5 Tie : Gretzky's 45th, Amirante is 45 & Slats is 37

On March 7th 1981, The Rangers played host to Wayne Gretzky and The  Edmonton Oilers, the Oilers fourth visit to Madison Square Garden ever.

The game video featured below provides us with an excellent look backward at what has turned out to be some present day New York Ranger staples.

The first of which is Ranger singer John Amirante. Amirante is shown belting out both national anthems at the spry age of 45, John is now 74.

We also get to see a youthful 37 year old Glen Sather coaching behind the Oiler Bench. Slats is now 66.

The game itself is no goaltending duel. Ranger Goaltender Steve Baker is bad and Oiler goalie Ed Mio is hapless.

Gretzky is dominant as usual and makes Ranger goaltender Steve Baker look like he chose the wrong profession, as we see when Baker reacts like a pick up hockey goalie on a Gretzky breakaway.

The game is full of some meanness and roughness as well. Ranger Crisis friend Chris “Kotsy” Kotsopoulos is seen mixing it up with Edmonton’s Mark Messier and then later jawing it up with Dave Hunter.

The verbal sparring between Hunter and Kotsy starts soon after Rangers goaltender Steve Baker delivers a pretty vicious butt end to the Oilers Dave Lumley right near the side of the goal mouth.

The game ends in a 5-5 tie, but it really was a game the Rangers let slip away. The Rangers were up 5-3 late into the third but gave up two goals with under five minutes left in the game and barely held on for the tie.

                                                                   

Tonight On Blueshirt Banter Radio At 8 PM, Leslie Treff of Hockey's Future to discuss about how the Rangers youth is progressing both on the farm and on the big club. Leslie as most of you know is one of the go to people as far as Ranger prospects and youth goes.

Also tonight, friends of the show Russ Cohen and Adam Raider stop by in what always turns out to be a fun and heated discussion about Ranger hockey. It's worth the listen it just ot hear the Mouth argue with XM Radio's Russ Cohen alone. Both Russ and Adam have written a wonderful book along with John Halligan entitled Ranger 100 greats.

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Gilles Villemure's First Start Of The 1970-71 Season : Rangers vs. Maple Leafs 10/17/70

Gilles Villemure, who was my guest on Blueshirt Banter Radio, this past Tuesday is featured in this video, Gilles gets his first start in goal of this season for the Rangers, in this game three of the 1970 season.

Ironically, tending goal for the Leafs that night is Gilles hockey hero. The legendary Jacques Plante

The game features the Rangers firing on all cylinders in every facet of the game dominating the Leafs at Maple Leaf Gardens. Rod Gilbert and Brad Park score some nifty goals, even a fight breaks out as Vic Hadfield takes on Jim Harrison is a nice little go.

Also, at the 9:25 minute mark of the video watch the absolutely sick move by the Leafs Mike Walton to avoid a Tim Horton check.


Bill Hewitt and Bob Goldham with the Call.

Mouth's Blueshirt Banter Radio Special Pre-Game Edition w/ guest Mitch Beck : Hartford Wolfpack Blogger

Anyone who missed last nights Blueshirt Banter radio program missed a dandy. Emile "The Cat" Francis literally took over the show as he regaled us with stories for almost two hours.

We suprised Emile by bringing on air Vezina trophy goaltender and ex- Ranger Gilles Villemure, whom Emile had coached from 1970-1975.

The show was fantastic, because they were fantastic the show can be heard here.




Tonight Special Pre-Game Edition Of  Blueshirt Banter Radio w/ The Mouth   6:30-8:30

Tonight we air at a special time 6:30- 8:30 and take you right up to game time and talk Ranger puck as well as give you a preview of the Ranger/ Hawk game tonight.

Also we welcome friend of the show Mitch Beck who blogs for the Hartford Wolfpack  "Howlings." Mitch will certainly give us the scoop and update us on whats going on with the Pack these days.

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Rangers Halt Isles 23 Game Home Undefeated Streak 1/27/79 : Ulf Nilsson has 5 Point Night

This is truly a Ranger classic and a 1978-1979 regular season preview of what would eventually transpire in the playoffs that year as the Ranger went on to defeat the Islanders in the Semi-Finals.

At this moment in time, the Rangers simply matched up very well against this particular Islander team. Also, J.D had his best season as a Pro between the pipes this year which didn't hurt their winning ways against the Hempstead club.

The game shown in the video took place on January 27th ,1979 at the Nassau Coliseum, the contest was an up and down affair with lots of hitting on both sides.

The Rangers wound up routing the Islanders 7-2 and ending the Isles 23 regular season game home undefeated streak.

The game showcases Ulf Nilsson's talents as he tally's a fantastic five points (1 goal 4 assists). One other highlight  is Nick Fotiu's goal. Nicky's celebration has him jumping for joy like he just scored a Stanley Cup Winner.

Which is awesome.

Tonight 12/8 On Blueshirt Banter Radio  8- 10 PM

Our Guests :

Emile Francis - Ranger Goalie , Ranger GM 65-75, and 3x Ranger Coach

Gilles Villemure - Ranger Goalie Extraordinaire 1969-1975

Phone Number To Call In  1-646-478-4692

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Mouth Turns Up At John Tavares Autograph Signing : Only Place You Can Find NYI Fans

I think anyone who has seen Ranger Crisis Video # 50 knows The Mouth has a penchant to annoy Islander fans. Most of them are easy marks.

They are full of frustration and pent up anger that their team and its franchise after some early success has developed into one of sports most prolific and epic failures.

Hempstead fans are full of lame arguments on why their attendance is perennially low in their shameful arena year after year and The Mouth personally can not pass up an opportunity to "visit" with these dingleberries whenever they gather in mass.

Which certainly means avoid an Islander home game at all costs if you want to needle hundreds of NYI fans at once.

Go to a FREE John Tavares autograph signing. That’s where you will find these soon to be K.C cretins gathering like mice to cheese.

On December 1st, 2009, The Big Man trucked it down to the NHL Store in Manhattan to mingle with the week kneed, empty headed Hempstead fans at a John Tavares autograph signing.

Much to his chagrin his camera man didn’t show, so what was shot is kind of a less comedy filled bit than usual, mostly because of multi-tasking, but a bit, nonetheless, will suffice for now.

As for The Mouth meeting Tavares, The Big man reports that John is a really nice guy and took The Mouths good nature ribbing well.

The autographed pic that The Big Man received for his trouble was immediately put on eBay for the price of $49.99.

Check out the video to see what happened.

Rangers Take On Devils in OT in 1984 : Chico Rushes Off Ice To Rescue Marty

The year is 1984. In the 1983-1984 season the NHL instituted the five minute overtime, no more regulation ties for this league.

This video clip takes place during the first year of the new rule. Both teams played 5 on 5, not like they do now under Heir Bettman. In this particular game that took place on January 4th 1984, the Rangers are playing the New Jersey Devils who are wearing their original and quite comical "Happy Holidays" jerseys.

It's an exciting overtime session which eventually leads to Devil's goalie Chico Resch storming off the ice as if he had heard a 12 year old Martin Brodeur was in stranger danger.

 

On Blueshirt Banter Radio Last Night , Myself and Jim had a chance to talk to EJ Hradek of NHL Network and ESPN the Magazine.

We discussed what may be the core problems with the Rangers of late and he gave some great answers from a much needed outsiders point of view.

Check out the archived show here :

Tonight, I Interview Former NHL Pugilist extraodinaire and EX-Ranger Joe Paterson. Also as always, taking your frustrated phone calls.

Show starts at 9 and runs till 11 PM.

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The Power Of Distraction : Rangers in Free Fall

The Rangers are in a free fall of epic proportions right now and of course they will be the last one to know it but as fans we must stay the course and supply our unrequited love for Ranger Hockey no matter how badly the team plays.

Unlike the typical Hempstead fan we do not have blinders on as far as our own team goes and actually pay attention to what other NHL teams are doing besides the Rangers.

In the last two weeks, I have written articles for Hockeybarn.com to distract me from the pain we all endure nightly watching our New York Gabqvists get absolutely no secondary scoring.

Writing away from the Rangers at this time also helps to relieve the agony of watching our Blueshirts almost get shutout by a household name such as Mike Smith of the Lightning.

The first article I wrote for Hockey Barn during this recent Ranger slump concerns another player named  Smith. Hockeybarn asked me to write about an epic blunder in Hockey. 

Rather than write an article that was all about The Rangers choosing Hugh Jessiman 12th overall in the 2003 draft, I chose to write about Edmonton Oiler Steve Smith scoring on his own goal during Games Seven of the 1986 Smythe Division Finals.

The article can be found here : "The Blunder Of It All"

I also wrote another article for Hockeybarn concerning the NHL's best player bargains and believe it or not a New York Ranger made it !

The article is basically my favorite NHL players that give you the most bang for your buck.

That friggin article can be found here :  Best Yet Of NHL Player "Door Buster" Sales


This Tuesday 12/1 on Blueshirt Banter Radio NHL Networks E.J Hradek 8-10 PM 
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On Wednesday's show 12/2 we talk with former NHL tough Guy and EX-Ranger Joe Paterson 9-11 PM



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Donald Brashear's Two Day Pugilistic Creature Double Feature : The Big Rig vs. Jared Boll & Steve "Mammoth" MacIntyre

The Big Rig had fights in back to back games and it must have been a good luck charm because the Rangers managed to win both of the games he had tussles in.

The first game took place on November 23rd, 2009 a game which Donald Brashear took on Jared Boll a game which also saw the Rangers actually scoring Seven goals as the Blueshirts had a rare offensive flare up and beat the visiting BJ’s 7-4 at MSG.

Boll hearlier in the period had taken a run at Ranger defensive commodity Marc Staal. “The Don” held Boll accountable (another Ranger rarity this season) and instigated the call to arms and forced Jared Boll to the answer the bell.

The second Big Rig fight shown in this video was a true battle of heavyweights that took place just two days later on November 25th, 2009.

Steve MacIntyre Florida’s resident pugilist, who was just recently called up specifically to deal with other teams enforcers via his skills with is dukes did so this time at Brashear’s expense. It wasn’t difficult to ascertain that at some point of the game that these two behemoths would lock up.

When they did it was battle of position and strength. Brashear began with some forays to the side of MacIntyres head and helmet.

But not much evolved until MacIntye delivered Two gut wrenching body shots to The Big Rig's stomach.

The first one winded Brashear, but The Big Rig pressed on, However, the second body shot delivered by the 6”6 265 mastadon MacIntyre forced Donald to take a knee.

The punch that he received was so hard it  knocked the The Big Rig's wind completely out of him.