True Blue has some truly high expectations

              The nhl season's right around the corner and the NY Rangers are looking to start strong. Expectations are much higher this year as the team has had one of their quietest but most succesful offseasons in recent memory. With the young core of home bred talent and leadership hitting their stride and coming to full maturity, whispers are starting to get louder about the solid squad these Rangers have. With basically one player's health in question (Staal), the Rangers are aspiring to finish the reagular season with home ice advatage to start the playoffs. They needed a quality first line center and they went out and signed the prize of the offseason free agents. They needed some toughness, went out and signed a hard nosed player like Mike Rupp. They're a solid squad on paper and now have an effective weapon on the power play with Brad Richards. This all sounds pretty good but that's why we play the games!! Let's see what we got going here.