New York Rangers

By Dan Akeson Head Coach John Tortorella will be tinkering with his final line combinations in preparation for tomorrow night's season opener at the Stanley Cup Champion Pittsburgh Penguins as we tinker with the final touches for our beta release of the new website. Redden - Rozsival

By Dan Akeson Defenseman Michael Del Zotto will be the youngest Rangers defenseman to take the ice since Brian Leetch. The 19-year old was the Rangers first round draft pick in 2008. He can still be returned to his OHL London Knights. Wade Redden - Matt Gilroy Michal Rozsival - Michael Del Zotto

By Dan Akeson At this point in the preseason, it's likely that the Rangers know six of their seven defensemen. Returning from last season on the blueline are Marc Staal, Dan Girardi, Wade Redden, and Michal Rozsival. Add to that mix newcomers Matt...

By Dan Akeson Wade Redden, who like Rozsival has something to prove, looked in much better shape and had some confidence in his step. We will see if that can translate into a game. In the final group, Captain Chris Drury looked a step ahead of last year and skated more similar to his time in Buffalo.

 CA by Chris Gates (Scribe) During the past few off seasons your attempts at fixing the Rangers have been questionable at best. The signings of Chris Drury, Scott Gomez, Wade Redden and Michal Rozsival have not panned out as you had hoped. ...

 Canada While the Rangers' cap situation isn't quite as dire as their actual salary commitments (thanks to front-loaded contracts for Scott Gomez, Chris Drury, Michal Rozsival and Wade Redden) would make it seem, but it's not easy to build a contending team ...

By Jane McManus But Antropov did say the left knee felt “all right” and, given the way Tortorella brough Michal Rozsival back pretty quickly from his knee injury, seems inclined to play his best players as the playoffs are on the line in the last three games of the season.

By Jane McManus Defenseman Michael Sauer was recalled from Hartford this morning, which means that Michal Rozsival is not ready to go for tomorrow’s game against Minnesota. Rozsival, who had arthroscopic hip surgery last year, was injured in the second period of last night’s 2-1 loss to Ottawa at The Ga...

By Jane McManus The lines: Naslund-Drury-Antropov; Avery-Gomez-Zherdev, Sjostom-Dubinsky-Callahan, Korpikoski-Betts-Orr. Defensive pairings Morris-Redden, Mara-Rozsival, Girardi-Staal. New York, March 19, 2009 —New York Rangers President and General Manager Glen Sather announced tod...

By Rick Carpiniello They made a few glaring mistakes, especially Sean Avery’s two selfish penalties and the defense pair of Michal Rozsival and Wade Redden, which reverted to January form. 3) Through two periods, I thought this might be the Rangers best game under Tortorella.

By Dan Akeson While looking at the roster, there isn't much space to merely tweak. A mid-range forward is not going to surpass the likes of Petr Prucha or Nik Zherdev. So, where do the Rangers improve? Can anyone say Jay Bouwmeester for Michal Rozsival, Nigel Dawes, Corey Potter, and a draft pick?

By Dan Akeson Naslund-Gomez-Zherdev Dawes-Korpikoski-Prucha Sjostrom-Betts-Orr Another interesting change is on defense, which Interim Assistant Coach Jim Schoenfeld is now handling. The pairings will be as follows: Rozsival - Redden Staal - Girardi Kalinin - Reitz

By Seth Rorabaugh New York will scratch Dan Fritsche and Lauri Korpikoski. 10:55: Nikolai Zherdev rips a wrister over the net. Rozsival leads New York with 8:54. Sjostrom leads the Rangers with three. Rozsival leads the Rangers with 16:15. 4:21: Lundqvist fights off a slapper by Boucher.

By Ross McKeon It was quite the night for defenseman Michael Rozsival, who enjoyed a two-goal game for only the third time during his 514-game NHL career. More importantly, Rozsival's second of the night, which came at even-strength at 3:41 of overtime, enabled the visiting New York Rangers to beat the...

By Greg Wyshynski • Larry Brooks looks at how the New York Rangers would be affected by the addition of Mats Sundin, both with regards to the salary cap and team chemistry. If only someone was dumb enough to take either Wade Redden or Michal Rozsival off their hands ... that sound you just heard was Glen Sather look...

By noreply@blogger.com (The Falconer) 18 +27 +3 Dawes (bench) 6 -23 -2 Fritsche (bench) Defense 1st pairing 51 +61 -5 Rozsival 23 +37 +3 Staal 2nd pairing 46 +93 -1 Girardi 26 +24 -1 Mara 3rd pairing 8 +4 -5 Kalinin 4 +2 -1 Potter 66 +83 -1 Redden (out) Goalies 85 +147 -6 Lundqvist 25 +10 -4 Valiquette

The three stars in the building here in Tampa Wednesday night were 1. Markus Naslund (two goals, plus a shootout goal); 2. Michal Rozsival (2 assists and a strong game at both ends of the ice); and 3. Artyukhin. Hard to argue with those three, except that I thought Fightin’ Nik Zherdev deserved a...

By Dubi The newly formed line of Zherdev and Markus Naslund flanking Brandon Dubinsky was again a big hit, with Naslund scoring both Ranger goals, assisted on both by Zherdev (as well as Michal Rozsival). Naslund and Zherdev capped off the evening by scoring shootout goals to make it a perfect fou...

By Greg Wyshynski • Larry Brooks freaks out about the state of the New York Rangers, wondering if there's any hope when the team relies upon shaky defensemen like Michal Rozsival and Wade Redden. For the record, Redden may actually have more turnovers than shots on the power play this season. [NY Post]

By Dubi Michal Rozsival was the obvious goat, committing the errors that led directly to the shorthanded odd-man rushes on which the Islanders scored. Wade Redden played the first rush poorly, Henrik Lundqvist wanted that second goal back, and coach Tom Renney blamed the other players who didn...

By Dubi One obvious factor is the goaltending of Henrik Lundqvist -- no one who has watched Wade Redden, Dmitri Kalinin, and Michal Rozsival play hot potato with the puck in their own end is going to ascribe the Rangers' defensive prowess to their blueline corps. You just can't underestimate the i...

By Sam Weinman Sean Avery, Mitch Fritz, Andrew Hutchinson, Jaromir Jagr, Darius Kasparaitis, Marek Malik, Paul Mara, Michal Rozsival, Brendan Shanahan, Martin Straka, Jason Strudwick, Steve Valiquette. Update, 12:32 p.m.: Reader Bill asks regarding Jaromir Jagr:

NEW YORK Michal Rozsivals aching left knee made the New York Rangers best defenseman a question mark for the biggest games of the season.