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Bruins place Trent Whitfield on waivers; Baby B's sign Dan LaCouture

Stanley Cup of Chowder — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:09:34 -0000

Kevin Paul Dupont of the Boston Globe is reporting that the Bruins have placed Trent Whitfield on waivers with the intent of sending him down to Providence. Teams will have until noon on Saturday claim Whitfield. If he goes unclaimed, he will likely join the Providence Bruins.

The Providence Bruins have also signed former Bruins tough guy Dan LaCouture to a professional try-out agreement.

Rangers News: Rangers trim training camp roster by 20-NY Rangers Press Release

Jim Schmiedeberg — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:26:26 -0000

New York, September 17, 2009 - New York Rangers President and General Manager Glen Sather announced today that the club has assigned the following 15 players to Hartford (AHL): goaltender Miika Wiikman; defensemen Trevor Glass, Brent Henley, Sam Klassen, Mike Sauer, David Urquhart, and Nigel Williams; and forwards Andres Ambuhl, Daniel Bartek, Devin DiDiomete, Brodie Dupont, Dan LaCouture, Matt Maccarone, Justin Soryal, and Dale Weise. In addition, the Rangers returned five players to their respective junior club: goaltender Scott Stajcer (Owen Sound, OHL); defenseman Tomas Kundratek (Medicine Hat, WHL); and forwards Ryan Bourque (Quebec, QMJHL), Roman Horak (Chilliwack, WHL) and Ethan Werek (Kingston, OHL).

Forwards Tyler Arnason, Dane Byers, Corey Locke, Jordan Owens, and Patrick Rissmiller will continue training camp with Hartford. Including these five players, the Rangers now have 34 players remaining in training camp, including four goaltenders, 10 defensemen and 20 forwards. New York continues their exhibition schedule tomorrow, September 18 at 7:30 PM when the team will travel to Detroit to face-off against the Red Wings at Joe Louis Arena.

PLAYERS ASSIGNED TO HARTFORD (AHL) ON 9/17/09:

Goal: Miika Wiikman

Defense: Trevor Glass, Brent Henley, Sam Klassen, Mike Sauer, David Urquhart, Nigel Williams

Forwards: Andres Ambuhl, Daniel Bartek, Devin DiDiomete, Brodie Dupont, Dan LaCouture, Matt Maccarone, Justin Soryal, Dale Weise

PLAYERS RETURNED TO JUNIORS ON 9/17/09:

Goal: Scott Stajcer (Owen Sound, OHL)

Defense: Tomas Kundratek (Medicine Hat, WHL)

Forwards: Ryan Bourque (Quebec, QMJHL), Roman Horak (Chilliwack, WHL), Ethan Werek (Kingston, OHL)

PLAYERS STILL IN NEW YORK RANGERS TRAINING CAMP:

Goal: Chad Johnson, Henrik Lundqvist, Steve Valiquette, Matt Zaba

Defense: Michael Del Zotto, Matt Gilroy, Dan Girardi, Ilkka Heikkinen, Corey Potter, Wade Redden, Michal Rozsival, Bobby Sanguinetti, Alexei Semenov, Marc Staal

Forwards: Artem Anisimov, Tyler Arnason, Sean Avery, Brian Boyle, Donald Brashear, Dane Byers, Ryan Callahan, Paul Crowder, Chris Drury, Marian Gaborik, Evgeny Grachev, Christopher Higgins, Ales Kotalik, Enver Lisin, Corey Locke, Jordan Owens, P.A. Parenteau, Vinny Prospal, Patrick Rissmiller, Aaron Voros

Rangers News: Let's play two! AHL-NHL Double Dip at MSG West

Jim Schmiedeberg — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:14:56 -0000

For those of you that didn't know, there is a doubleheader today over in Newark. At 1 PM, the Hartford Wolfpack will take on the Lowell Devils, and then at 7 PM the Rangers and Devils take to the ice.

Here are the rosters for the games today, thanks to Andrew Gross at Ranger Rants:

Hartford (1 p.m. game):

Justin Soryal-Paul Crowder-Dale Weise
Devin Didiomete-Corey Locke-Ryan Bourque
Brodie Dupont-Ethan Werek-Andres Ambuhl
Daniel Bartek-Roman Horak-Jordan Owens
Trevor Glass-Sam Klassen
Nigel Williams-Tomas Kundratek
Ilkka Heikkinen-David Urquhart
G: Scott Stajcer/Miika Wiikman

Rangers (7 p.m. game):

Sean Avery-Vinny Prospal-P.A. Parenteau
Aaron Voros-Tyler Arnason-Enver Lisin
Evgeny Grachev-Brian Boyle-Ales Kotalik
Patrick Rissmiller-Matt Maccarone-Dan LaCouture
Wade Redden-Matt Gilroy
Michael Del Zotto-Michal Rozsival
Brent Henley-Corey Potter
G: Henrik Lundqvist/Chad Johnson

I must say I am a little bummed. Was hoping to get a look at Heikkenen and Klassen tonight, before surely at least one of them is cut.

Arnason-Boyle-Maccarone, not exactly a Murderer's Row at center tonight. But on the plus side, we get to see Grachev, Gilroy, and Del Zotto again, and we'll get our first look at Vinny Prospal in a Ranger uniform.

Rangers Training Camp: 2nd scrimmage updates

Jim Schmiedeberg — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:56:48 -0000

Highlights from Andrew Gross at Ranger Rants: (click link for full story):

Goalies, Steve Valiquette (Team 2) and Chad Johnson (Team 3) both had strong outings, stopping potential scrimmage-winning shots in the final minutes. The rest of the teams were: (Team 2 Fs: Sean Avery, Vinny Prospal, Brodie Dupont, Paul Crowder, Andres Ambuhl, Devin Didiomete; Ds Wade Redden, Corey Potter, Ilkka Heikkinen, Brent Henley, Alexei Semenov), (Team 3 Fs: Evgeny Grachev, Brian Boyle, P.A. Parenteau, Donald Brashear, Tyler Arnason, Enver Lisin, Dan LaCouture, Corey Locke; Ds: Sam Klassen, Michal Rozsival, Nigel Williams and Tomas Kundratek).

And Rozsival knocked down Ambuhl as he tried to get to the net. Ambuhl tried a spin-o-rama around the veteran NHL defenseman in the slot and Rozsival, not budging, used Ambuhl's lack of balance on the play to push him to the ice.

Brashear, by the way, looked good and not in the way he's usually measured in looking good. He skated hard and was creating chances in front of the net, also going into the corner to retrieve the puck. I sort of thought a younger kid, like hulking Henley, would try to make a name for themselves by challenging Brashear but it never came close to that.

From the tweets:

Andrew Gross:

After second group practices, Torts again stresses hard skating, picking out Girardi and Kotalik.

Evgeny Grachev beats Valiquette on penalty restart to tie scrimmage at one.

Vinny Prospal playing center in scrimmage with Brandon Dubinsky still absent.

Jim Cerny:

Good physical play from Boyle, Lacouture and Brashear (shocker)

Higgins on Torts' intensity: "He comes as advertised"

I'll be taking your phone calls on Blueshirt Banter tonight, as well. Call in number is: 646-479-4692. Looking forward to talking Rangers! [Note by Jim Schmiedeberg, 09/14/09 2:55 PM EDT I had to put this one in, shameless promotion]

Tales of the Tape: Carolina 10-24, Paul Bissonnette vs. Dan LaCouture

JDunman — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:00:06 -0000

If you haven't gotten to know Paul Bissonnette yet, then I may assume that you're a bit squeamish when it comes to hockey fights. Bissonnette lit up the preseason with his fists and hasn't stopped in the regular season. Better yet, he's really good at what he does. Case in point - his fight against Dan LaCouture just into the 1st period of last night's game against the Hurricanes.

Bissonnette came out swinging and when LaCouture moved in to him, he met the fists to his head. After losing his helmet and a bit of his balance, LaCouture could do nothing but take a beating from Bissonnette. On my call, that's a win for the good guys.

Before I get to the poll seeing who you think won the fight, I want to mention some changes to Tales of the Tape from last season. As polls are now dependable for me (they never seemed to want to post last season), I will be keeping tabs of the victors that you, the Pensburgh community, decide through these polls, as well as my own decisions. So when I give a player's fight total after a video, it will have two win-loss-draw ratings: mine and yours.

Unfortunately, I can only post one poll per post, so check back around noon for the game's second fight between Eric Godard and Wade Brookbank. You'll be glad you did...until you see the fight.

Poll

Who won the fight?

Paul Bissonnette

22 votes

Dan LaCouture

5 votes

Draw

0 votes

27 votes | Poll has closed