Reports out of NY is that G Mike Richter is gone for the season with a skull fracture. If that is the case NYR are cooked!
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Richter gone for season?
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Richter might not return for regular season
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The Rangers are in serious danger of not making the playoffs. Now, that fate seems more likely for the Blueshirts.
And, barring a miracle, the high-rent Rangers will miss the playoffs for the fifth consecutive season. It's really difficult to believe that a team with that kind of high-priced talent could pull off such a feat. But, somehow, they've done it. Who do you congratulate for such an achievement?
Without Mike Richter -- who will be re-evaluated in two weeks -- the Rangers will play out the schedule behind goalie-of-the-future, Dan Blackburn, who was selected with the 10th pick in last summer's draft.
Hradek's complete analysis
New York goalie Mike Richter was diagnosed Tuesday with a small fracture in his skull just above his right ear and is out at least two weeks, when he will be re-evaluated.
The team doesn't expect him back before the last two games of the regular season.
"It's still hard to believe," Richter said in a report on Newsday's Web site on Tuesday. "I've been hit in the head many, many times and nothing like this has ever happened. It's still sinking in."
Richter underwent a CT scan at the Gramercy MRI Diagnostic Center in New York on Monday, which revealed the linear fracture of the right temporal bone.
Richter, 35, was still feeling headaches Sunday after he took three significant blows to the head before he left in the first period of Friday's 5-2 loss to the Thrashers. According to a report in Monday's Bergen Record, no one is sure which of them caused the initial concussion.
In pregame warmups Friday, Richter was run into by teammate Martin Rucinsky and complained of a sore jaw afterward.
"He said he was fine," Rangers coach Ron Low told the newspaper Monday. "He didn't look fine."
Richter convinced Low to let him start, and in the first minute he took a shot off the mask from J.P. Vigier. Then, less than two minutes later, a rising Chris Tamer slap shot from the red line struck him on the right side of the mask, dropping him into the ice and opening a cut on his ear.
The news could result in the third straight time Richter has had his season come to a premature end -- the last two seasons were ended early by torn ligaments in each of his knees.
The Rangers will now rely on 18-year-old Dan Blackburn to start in Richter's place.
Richter, the primary U.S. goalie at the Salt Lake City Olympics, sat out the Rangers' 4-2 loss to the New York Islanders on Monday.
He is 24-26-4-3 with a 2.95 goals-against average and a .906 save percentage this season.
Entering Tuesday's games, the Rangers were tied for 10th in the Eastern Conference, three points behind the eighth-place Montreal Canadiens for the last playoff berth.
Richter might not return for regular season
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ESPN.com news services
The Rangers are in serious danger of not making the playoffs. Now, that fate seems more likely for the Blueshirts.
And, barring a miracle, the high-rent Rangers will miss the playoffs for the fifth consecutive season. It's really difficult to believe that a team with that kind of high-priced talent could pull off such a feat. But, somehow, they've done it. Who do you congratulate for such an achievement?
Without Mike Richter -- who will be re-evaluated in two weeks -- the Rangers will play out the schedule behind goalie-of-the-future, Dan Blackburn, who was selected with the 10th pick in last summer's draft.
Hradek's complete analysis
New York goalie Mike Richter was diagnosed Tuesday with a small fracture in his skull just above his right ear and is out at least two weeks, when he will be re-evaluated.
The team doesn't expect him back before the last two games of the regular season.
"It's still hard to believe," Richter said in a report on Newsday's Web site on Tuesday. "I've been hit in the head many, many times and nothing like this has ever happened. It's still sinking in."
Richter underwent a CT scan at the Gramercy MRI Diagnostic Center in New York on Monday, which revealed the linear fracture of the right temporal bone.
Richter, 35, was still feeling headaches Sunday after he took three significant blows to the head before he left in the first period of Friday's 5-2 loss to the Thrashers. According to a report in Monday's Bergen Record, no one is sure which of them caused the initial concussion.
In pregame warmups Friday, Richter was run into by teammate Martin Rucinsky and complained of a sore jaw afterward.
"He said he was fine," Rangers coach Ron Low told the newspaper Monday. "He didn't look fine."
Richter convinced Low to let him start, and in the first minute he took a shot off the mask from J.P. Vigier. Then, less than two minutes later, a rising Chris Tamer slap shot from the red line struck him on the right side of the mask, dropping him into the ice and opening a cut on his ear.
The news could result in the third straight time Richter has had his season come to a premature end -- the last two seasons were ended early by torn ligaments in each of his knees.
The Rangers will now rely on 18-year-old Dan Blackburn to start in Richter's place.
Richter, the primary U.S. goalie at the Salt Lake City Olympics, sat out the Rangers' 4-2 loss to the New York Islanders on Monday.
He is 24-26-4-3 with a 2.95 goals-against average and a .906 save percentage this season.
Entering Tuesday's games, the Rangers were tied for 10th in the Eastern Conference, three points behind the eighth-place Montreal Canadiens for the last playoff berth.
This could be a storyline for a new Disney movie.
This could be a storyline for a new Disney movie.
Dan Blackburn...18 years old starting for the NY Rangers for the rest of the regular season playing among the most expensive talent the NHL can produce.
I'll be pulling for an uplifting end to the Rangers season.
This could be a storyline for a new Disney movie.
Dan Blackburn...18 years old starting for the NY Rangers for the rest of the regular season playing among the most expensive talent the NHL can produce.
I'll be pulling for an uplifting end to the Rangers season.
As if they weren't cooked already!! The downhill slide initiated after the All-Star Break, only one team with a worse record in that time span.
