Kukla's Korner (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
From Rick Carpiniello at The Rangers Report: Anyway, here are my first-quarter report cards. As always I’d love to hear what you think, or how you’d grade them: Michael Del Zotto: A …He’s going to get stronger and a little meaner and he might be a star. Dan Girardi: C … Is is possible that the Staal-Girardi pair was a product of Tom Renney’s system? Wade Redden:...
The Blueshirts Blog (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Twenty bodies at the morning skate today, just enough to field a team against the Atlanta Thrashers tonight - and that team will have Henrik Lundqvist starting in its nets. Lundqvist was on the ice for only the third time in the last seven days but declared himself ready to go tonight at the Garden for his first start since last Tuesday in Vancouver, a 4-1 loss that opened the Rangers’ three-game...
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The Rangers don't travel out to Edmonton every year, so when they do, they like to take advantage. They did just that in a 4-2 win over the Oilers on Wednesday. Ales Kotalik had a goal and two assists as the Rangers snapped a four-game losing streak away from Madison Square Garden. Marian Gaborik, Christopher Higgins and Ryan Callahan also scored for the Blueshirts, who faced Tom Renney, an Edmonton...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Tom Renney is bracing himself for his first game against the Rangers since being fired as their coach less than a year ago.
Kukla's Korner (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Andrew Gross over at Ranger Rants has a great blog/transcript with former New York Ranger head coach and now Edmonton Oilers associate coach Tom Renney: On taking the job as Quinn’s associate coach: “He hired me for my first coaching job in Vancouver in 1996 as the GM of the Canucks and as soon as he (Oilers GM Steve Tambellini) said it, I said, ‘OK, this could work.’ I said,...
Kukla's Korner (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
from Bruce Garrioch of the Ottawa Sun at the Toronto Sun, GMs are taking notice of the success Oilers RW Dustin Penner and C Sam Gagner are having under new coach Pat Quinn and assistant Tom Renney. Both players were in the doghouse of former coach Craig MacTavish, who was fired after eight seasons. Executives are wondering whether coaches’ messages get stale if they’re kept around too...
Kukla's Korner (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
from Larry Brooks of the NY Post, If Wade Redden looks like a different player in his second season with the Rangers, and he does, much of the improvement can be credited to the fact that he is now playing in a system that maximizes his skills as a skater and puck mover while minimizing his deficiencies in defensive zone coverage and reading the rush. Redden might as well have been on an island last...
PuckUpdate (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Arthur Staple writes about what everyone watching the Rangers has noticed: the team has undergone a dramatic reinvention. Between the coaching changes and the personnel changes, the Rangers are almost completely different. And it seems like John Tortorella’s coaching is responsible for the success of the personnel changes. For instance, previous coach Tom Renney religiously rolled four [...]...
From The Rink (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
More photos » by Jeff McIntosh - AP Browse more photos » Who's in: Nikolai Khabibulin Who's out: Kyle Brodziak , Ales Kotalik , Dwayne Roloson Outlook: Edmonton made two bold moves in the summer but was thwarted on a third when sniper Dany Heatley turned down a potential trade to the Oilers in July. Barring another blockbuster in the near future, then, the key differences between this year's...
Kukla's Korner (Free subscription) | 08/12/2009
from Ed Willes of the Vancouver Province via the National Post, Well, you don’t have to understand all the intricacies of the collective bargaining agreement to understand the prevailing attitude toward Zherdev and others of his ilk. It’s taken some time but it seems GMs around the league have finally clued in to the great danger of overpaying for offence; of overextending their payroll...
Kukla's Korner (Free subscription) | 08/12/2009
from Todd Kimberely at NHL.com, The Heatley affair sullied what otherwise has been a solid offseason for the Oilers, who are trying to find their way back to the Stanley Cup Playoffs after three years out. After parting ways with veteran coach Craig MacTavish after eight seasons, Tambellini delivered a master stroke—drawing on his old Vancouver Canucks connections by bringing on board the tandem...
Kukla's Korner (Free subscription) | 08/04/2009
from Jim Matheson of the Edmonton Journal, For any fans thinking that Nikolai Zherdev might be a fit with the Edmonton Oilers because the New York Rangers don’t want him, forget it. He’s a square peg in a round hole. While Zherdev might be intriguing on the wing because the Oilers have pulled out of the Dany Heatley trade with the Ottawa Senators, sources say Edmonton Oilers associate coach...
Kukla's Korner (Free subscription) | 07/21/2009
from Allan Muir of Sports Illustrated, There are plenty of rumors swirling around Edmonton’s apparent need for a third line center, most of it focusing on free agents Manny Malhotra and Blair Betts. No doubt the roster would really benefit from the signing of character guy like Malhotra, but his asking price (thought to be three years, $6 million) is too high. The familiarity of coach Tom Renney...
The Blueshirts Blog (Free subscription) | 07/16/2009
Okay, Jim Schoenfeld, you're off the hook. The Rangers today named Mike Sullivan their assistant coach, a move that was both long expected and may round out John Tortorella's coaching staff with one stroke of the pen. Sullivan has spent the last two seasons as a Lightning assistant, the first under Tortorella in 2007-08 before Barry Melrose took over for a couple weeks. The Marshfield, Mass. product...
Miami Herlad (Free subscription) | 07/14/2009
From end-of-the-bench defenseman Erik Reitz on up to Scott Gomez and behind the bench to Tom Renney, the Rangers have cleaned house.
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