On Tuesday, May 4, the New York Rangers released a statement disagreeing with Tom Wilson’s punishment and calling for the head of the Department of Player Safety, George Parros, to be removed from his role.
The NHL was silent about the statement until Thursday, when they announced they have fined the Rangers $250,000.
By Cara Bahniuk 6 days ago
The Washington Capitals beat up on the Rangers in multiple ways on the way to a 4-2 victory. What an interesting one.
The Caps outshot the Rangers 35 to 21 and out-attempted them at five-on-five 41 to 21.
By Chris Cerullo 7 days ago
The Washington Capitals defeated the New York Rangers in a game that people tuned into for one reason, but I hope they stuck around for another.
TJ Oshie, in his first game back from bereavement, scored in the first and second periods. Nic Dowd deflected John Carlson’s shot to make it 3-0 before the third period, where Alexis Larenfriere cracked the shutout.
Then TJ Oshie, for his dad, completed the hat trick with an empty-net goal. Morgan Barron added one for the Rangers in the final minute and change.
Caps win.
By Peter Hassett 1 week ago
In the hours leading up to Wednesday’s rematch between the Capitals and Rangers, the Rangers organization called Tom Wilson’s role in a line brawl on Monday “a horrific act of violence.” Rangers players said Wilson had no respect for the game or its players. And the team said the Department of Player Safety’s George Parros should be fired after choosing to fine, not suspend the Capitals forward. The Rangers essentially painted themselves into a corner, where there had to be retribution in Wednesday’s game.
And retribution there was.
The Rangers and Capitals opened the game with a line brawl. All six forwards on the ice fought. Before the game was five minutes old, the teams dropped the mitts six different times.
By Ian Oland 1 week ago
The Washington Capitals and the New York Rangers are scheduled to play what some suspect could be a hockey game, but will likely turn into a tables, ladders, and chairs match after Monday’s line brawl. Buckle up. This is going to be a wild one.
They are set to drop the puck and probably gloves at 7 PM. Peter thankfully has your recap because if I did the account would probably get banned tonight.
By Chris Cerullo 1 week ago
The New York Rangers have released a statement about the $5,000 fine Tom Wilson received for roughing Pavel Buchnevich on Monday.
In the statement, the team calls Wilson’s actions “dangerous and reckless” and declare they want George Parros removed from his role at the Department of Player Safety.
By Peter Hassett 1 week ago
The Washington Capitals played well shorthanded roster-wise and eventually took down the now fully eliminated New York Rangers 6-3. But, at what cost?
The Caps outshot the Rangers 40 to 26 and out-attempted them at five-on-five 46 to 31.
By Chris Cerullo 1 week ago
Some corrupted bastardization of the Washington Capitals summoned an eldritch win over the New York Rangers on Monday night. In a hockey year that has been hockey weird, this game was downright spooky.
There were lot of goals from the shambolic revenants who think they still play Caps hockey. For starters, Nic Dowd scored a rush goal, and Conor Sheary added on with a nifty assist from Michael Raffl.
Mika Zibanejad ended the first period and began the second period with a pair of goals, as he always does against Washington. The Rangers took the lead off Kaapo Kakko’s stick, but Garnet Hathaway tied it up late.
Four minutes into the third period, Daniel Sprong pulled off some more elite moves to restore Washington’s lead. Our only good son Nicky Backstrom fended off two Rangers D to extend the lead. Tom Wilson added an empty-netter.
Caps win.
By Peter Hassett 1 week ago
The Washington Capitals and New York Rangers got in a line brawl in the second period after Vitek Vanecek went to the splits to make a goal-line stop on Pavel Buchnevich during a Caps penalty kill.
As the play was whistled dead, Tom Wilson punched Buchnevich in the side of the head as the Rangers’ forward laid defenseless and face down on the ice.
Things deteriorated from there.
By Ian Oland 1 week ago
The Washington Capitals and New York Rangers will do battle twice in a row in The Big Apple and the first of those two games is tonight. The big news is that the Caps and Rangers could be missing a combined seven regulars when they take the ice.
They’ll drop the biscuit at 7 PM and Peter has your recap.
By Chris Cerullo 1 week ago
