"Rangers leading scorer Brandon Dubinsky has a stress fracture in the fibula in his left leg. He'll be out three to four weeks." @kausatoday 

According to Kevin Allen of USA Today Dubinsky has a stress fracture in his left leg. This probably could not have happened at a worse time. I do not know whether this means someone like Grachev gets called up (he recently had his first 2 goal game of the season so get excited..). This means Dubinsky won't be back until a couple of weeks after Callahan, which I guess answers the what happens to MZA when Cally comes back question. 

The only silver lining I see here is perhaps Torts will use Avery more and I feel like especially this year he's shown that he deserves to get more minutes simply based upon effort. I would expect he takes Dubi's spot on the 3rd line with Prust and Boyle. I would actually prefer that Feds go back to the third line and Avery get a chance to play with Anisimov and Gaborik again as I felt they showed chemistry and were broken up too quick, but what do I know. 

Hey guys, new around here. I've been playing with my list of pitchers during my classes this semester and I thought I'd share how my top 25 looks thus far.

1. Felix Hernandez
2. Roy Halladay
3. Adam Wainwright
4. John Lester
5. Jubaldo Jimenez
6. Josh Johnson
7. CC Sabathia
8. Justin Verlander
9. Cliff Lee
10. Zack Greinke
11. Tim Lincecum
12. David Price
13. Dan Haren
14. Clayton Kershaw
15. Cole Hamels
16. Yovani Gallardo
17. Jered Weaver
18. Matt Cain
19. Tommy Hanson
20. Chris Carpenter
21. Roy Oswalt
22. Max Scherzer
23. Francisco Liriano
24. Matt Latos
25. Johnathan Sanchez

Let me know what you think, I did this pretty much off the top of my head and am very open to suggested tweaking.

Larry Brooks is reporting that the NHL has given the NHLP an ultimatum. Basically the NHL has told the NHLPA that they will allow the Kovalchuk deal of 15 years at 100million total to be grandfathered in, however they must accept the following conditions:

1. That the cap hit on future multi-year contracts will not count any seasons that end with the player over 40 years of age. The cap hit would be calculated on the average of the salary up through age 40 only.

2. That the cap hit on future contracts longer than five years will be calculated under a formula granting additional weight to the five years with the highest salary.

If the NHLPA does not accept these stipulations the NHL will immediately devoid both Kovalchuk and Luongo's contracts and begin investigating other potential cap circumventing contracts such as that of Marian Hossa's.

The NHL owns sweeping punitive powers against teams and players judged guilty of circumvention under Article 26 of the CBA.

This could get ugly and fast.

Hey I don't know if you guys have seen Down Goes Brown's blog post about the fake google ads for the NHL. They are very funny and he has continued to add to them since creating the initial one for the Leafs. Anyway I noticed there weren't any Rangers ones so I decided to make my own, you can do this pretty easily it tells you how to make them at the end of each video. I left my video in the comment section of the blog post and DGB was nice enough to post it with all the other videos. Anyway check it out and let me know what you think of it, it only took like 5 minutes to make so I thought it'd be cool if anyone else submitted their own or posted them here. You can find it on DGB's page and it's the only one currently for the Rangers. 

Hey I just finished a 12 team standard draft with basic 5x5 categories. I was wondering if a few of you would give me your opinions on how I made out.

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Hey, I thought I'd post this and get some feedback. I'm in a pretty competitive Fantasy Baseball League and I decided to rank my top 100 for pitchers. Let me know if you think I left anyone off or if you disagree, I'm open to suggestions/tweaking.

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Craig Carton of WFAN reporting; that if the Islanders beat the Rangers again tonight, that Glen will finally be fired.

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Tortorella's Postgame Courtesy of Andrew Gross

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Tim Panaccio Reports the Flyers have fired head coach John Stevens.

via www.meltyourfaceoff.net

I really didn't think they had it in them. John Stevens was way to passive for a team of undisciplined prima-donnas, now I'm terrified they might start playing to there potential. Does anyone know where Mike Keenan is? I think he'd whip them into shape. Not that this will effect the Rangers as they continue to spiral into the cellar. Funny thing is I thought Torts would've been great for the Flyers last year before we hired him, I could see them playing his system they have enough two way guys who have a lot of scoring potential, unlike the Rangers and their no way tweeners.

Due to the fact that I find most power rankings by any publication in any sport to be pedestrian and lazy (with the exception of cbssportsline's MLB rankings) I thought it was about time I did my own. I'll try and do these once a week if people actually read them. Now without further ado KingHenrik's 2009/2019 Week 1 POWER RANKINGS.
(note: I started these before the first games were played, and they had no bearing on the first order of teams)

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I just thought I would throw together my thoughts on this upcoming season. If you had not already seen I started making some predictions on Jim's Nostradamus post; here are those predictions, the rest are after the jump:

Rangers finish 5th, and play the 4th place Penguins in the first round. The East will be seeded like this 1. Capitals 2. Bruins 3. Flyers 4. Penguins 5. Rangers 6. Canes 7. Leafs* 8. Devils.
The Rangers PK will fall to 11th, but their PP will rise to 10th.
Wade Redden will have a comeback season, everyone will still hate him.
Glen Sather will trade Brian Boyle and a 4th round pick back to the Kings in exchange for his own third rounder back.
Michal Roszival will become public enemy #1.

*After seeing the younger Koistisyn was sent down I've concluded that Montreal has no idea what they're doing and are going to have a less than stellar season.

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http://tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=290808

It Seems that Dany Heatley has gotten his wish.

The Ottawa Senators dealt the veteran forward to the San Jose Sharks for Milan Michalek, Jonathan Cheechoo and a second round pick.

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I think that there is no point in having Anisimov on the roster now if you're not gonna put him on one of the top 3 lines. Korpedo should go back down to the 4th because Anisimov has more offensive upside and would probably be as useless as Voros playing with Sjostrom and Orr. I'd really like to see, even if we lose this game, Zherdev and Anisimov playing together for the first and likely last time. My line combinations would be:
Gomez - Avery - Callahan
Drury - Naslund - Antropov
Anisimov - Zherdev -Dubinsky
Korps - Orr - Sjostrom

I thought the Rangers were simply out played. Offensively they weren't able to generate anything and Varlamov made all the saves an NHL goalie should (I'm sure that made Jose feel like a winner). Sean Avery played his worst game of the season by far and took 4 bad penalties. Scott Gomez and Chris Drury were mostly invisible, with the exception of Gomez turning the puck over a couple times. Antropov I thought had a good game and Markus Naslund has been very un-Markus Naslund like during the playoffs actually stepping up his game. Henrik was great again and the game very well couldve been 6 or 7 nothing if it weren't for Hank. 

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