Did not have enough time to explain my fav. team and the reason behind it. Ever since I was little, I've been a New York Rangers fan. Weird, I know. I was playing a Hockey game on my PC (I think it was Brett Hull's Hockey or something like that) in the early 90's. I played an exibition match with a random team, which turned out to be the Rangers. I decided to follow that team. There have been more downs than ups recently, but this year it looks diffirent. We have very talented youngesters like Derek Stepan, Mats Zuccarello, Ryan McDonagh and some players who get better every year with Derek Boogaard, Artem Anisimov, Steve Eminger, Dan Girardi and of course one of the best goalies in the world: Henrik Lundqvist!!!
This year we ended 8th in the Eastern Conference and made the play offs where we were up against the Capitals from Washington. Alex Ovechkin and Alexander Semin were terribly off form and we were without our best player Ryan Callahan (who suffered a broken ankle a week before the play offs).
Despite that, we won 1 match, lost 2 only in OT so we didn't do too bad. Next year we will have some players coming over from CT Whale again, including the young Michael del Zotto.
I really think we have a chance to get to 3rd or even 4th next season if we lose the big fish like Chris Drury, Wade Redden, Vaclav Prospal, Marian Gaborik and Sean Avery and replace them with some younger players like Gravchev.
With Wolski, Dubinsky, Frolov and Fedotenko we have 4 more forwards who add some spice to the team.
