Today is Jean Ratelle's 85th birthday. Ratelle centered a line with Rod Gilbert and Vic Hadfield. The line was known as the GAG line or goal a game. They led the Rangers to the Stanley Cup finals in 1972, but lost to the Bobby Orr led Boston Bruins.

Nice recognition. :) GAG line is legendary.

Tuesday, it begins

Pens at the Rangers. Should be interesting to see, Mike Sullivan coaching against his old team. And the Pens have a coach who used to be a Rangers assistant coach.

Well that sucked.

The Rangers looked slow, Pens had some jump. Both goalies played well, but the Rangers made one mistake that cost them a goal that held up.

Things looked better last night. It was only Buffalo though.

Still and all, I'm confident if Shesty can maintain a .985 the Rangers will contend 😆

Maintain a .985??? Holy crapola Vic, get back on your meds you're delusional.

LOL I'd be thrilled with a .920, for sure

All 32 teams play today, big day

Anything above 9 would work.

That was a good'un. Everyone on the score sheet.

Vic, your Rangers have lost 3 home games all via shutout.

First team in NHL history to get shutout first 3 at home, pretty crazy. They strongly carried play in the last two as well. Even crazier, they have outscored the opposition 10-1 on the road.

They'd better figure out the home cooking or it's going to be a long season.

Well Vic’s Rangers lost another home game, but at least they scored a goal. Wild 3 Rangers 1.

How can they be so bad at home specifically? This is crazy.

Another home loss Vic, this time to the lowly Sharks, the Sharks.

That was ugly, and embarrassing. Bench the vets, play the kids.

With his 5 point outing against muh boys last week, Macklin Celebrini became the 4th teenager ever with 2 (TWO!) five point games in the NHL. The others are Gretzky, Dale Hawerchuck, and Bryan Trottier. Quite a list.

Also, Connor Bedard finally got his first NHL hat trick. His shot is freaking sick, but on the second goal in this game he displayed some stick handling and "shrug it off" ability as a puck carrier that I haven't seen much of.

It's good to see the two presumed future faces of the league starting to look like they'll be as good as advertised.

It's infuriating that all the other teams can have nice things with their 1OA draft pick.

Pesky Rangers.