September has finally arrived, and that means Rangers hockey will be played this month! After a long, somewhat eventful summer, the Rangers look to try to course-correct this season and find their way back into the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
As I’ve spent time learning more about the 1994 New York Rangers and their Stanley Cup run, one theme keeps coming up: grit over skill. Head coach Mike Keenan wasn’t shy about reshaping the roster to fit his vision of a tougher, more playoff-ready team.
Do you remember Tony Amonte? Every week, we’ll look at a forgotten Calgary Flames player in the weekly series “ A Flame From the Past .” Of course, the player had to have played a significant number of games for the Flames – at least a full season.
One week out from the March 8 NHL Trade Deadline, we continue to deliver at least one deadline-focused story per day on Daily Faceoff. Today, we revisit the wildest Trade Deadline in NHL history as its 30th anniversary approaches.
The NHL has had an interesting new millennium. It was a league sans a salary cap when the 2000s started… and then the owners locked the players out for an entire season.