New York Rangers Information

The New York Rangers are a professional team playing ice hockey. They play at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York, USA and plays in the National Hockey League. The New York Islanders and the New Jersey Devils are the teams most well known rivals. The New York Rangers playing under new head coach Tom Renney have seen the ice hockey team go from high priced veterans towards a team of talented young players.

In the mid-to-late 1990s the team was the Stanley Cup favorites. It was quite visible that their 1994 stars were aging, so many of them finished their career. In the summer of 1997 GM Neil Smith ran Messier out of town and replaced him with the superstar of Avalanche Joe Sakic. After that the New York Rangers began a period of seven seasons without playoffs. A bit later in March 2000, Smith and head coach John Muckler were fired, and it was that summer when James Dolan decided to hire Glen Sather to replace him.

Actually, the New York Rangers had lots of starts as members. The players worth mentioning here are Theoren Fleury who joined the Rangers after having played for the Flames, Eric Lindros who came to the Rangers from the Flyers and certainly famous Pavel Bure whom they got late in the 2001-02 season. But even though they had such a starry team of players, they still finished out of the playoffs. As the time passed, some other stars appeared in the New York Rangers. They were Alexei Kovalev, Jaromir Jagr, Anson Carter and Bobby Holik, but in the season 2002-03 and season 2003-04, the team missed the playoffs one more time. This is the reason why Ranger fans are starting to think they might have to wait for quite a long period of time for another Stanley Cup to be won by their favorite team.

The names of such players as Petr Prucha, Dominic Moore and Blair Betts are among the most famous ones in the ice hockey history while the focus of the team New York Rangers remains on Jaromir Jagr who is often treated as a superstar. During the season of 2005-2006, Jaromir Jagr broke single season points record set by the New York Rangers'. 110 points on the season were given to him breaking the record of Jean Ratelle. The player scored his 53rd goal in the season in the match against the Boston Bruins on the 8th of April, breaking the team record was held by Adam Graves a certain time ago.

The team was expected to struggle during the season of 2005-2006 but the Rangers managed to finish the season with their best record since the 1993-94 season. This proves one more time that whatever the reason, they are playing like a team on a mission. Vividseats.com has access to the best Rangers tickets available!