Thursday, September 20, 2007

Are You Readyyyyyyyyyyyy?


Its almost time for the Rangers to bring their gear into the locker room at the Garden and get this season started! Steve Zipay from Newsday, the Islanders rag, apparently has an inside ear and posted the lines for the first two preseason games on his blog, Blue Notes.

Without futher delay:
Against the Devils (no Gomez, no surprise but swapping Drury for Anisimov is a lil strange):
Avery-Anisimov-Shanahan
Straka-Dubinsky-Callahan
Hollweg-Betts-Lessard
Byers-Smith-Jessiman

Defense:
Tyutin-Girardi
Strudwick-Sauer
Kasparaitis-Hutchinson

Goal: Valiquette, Montoya

This second group, plus at least one player from above, will play against Philadelphia on Saturday night.

Dawes-Gomez-Jagr
Hossa-Drury-Prucha
Korpikoski-Pyatt-Orr

Defense:
Baranka-Mara
Malik-Sanguinetti
Staal-Rozsival
Pock-Liffiton

Goal: Lundqvist, Wiikman

>>>EDIT: New York Rangers President and General Manager Glen Sather announced today that the club has reassigned forward Tom Pyatt to Hartford (AHL) and defenseman Bobby Sanguinetti to Brampton (OHL). No surprrise in these moves although I would have thought that he would have let them play in at least one preseason game. But Sather is a bastard like that so maybe not. Guess Zipay was wrong (a reporter for Newsday getting something wrong? nooooooo).

More info and analysis to come, stay tuned!!!

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