Markus Naslund News

During a recent Canuck game, one of the officials skated over to the Vancouver bench and suggested to coach Alain Vigneault that he needed to persuade a couple of his players to tone down their verbal taunting of the opposition.

The Tampa Bay Lightning, given an expensive and high-profile makeover after a dismal NHL 2007-08 season, received a negative review Saturday from one of the team's newcomers after a 2-1 opening-night loss to the New York Rangers.

The long goodbye continues for former Ottawa Senators defenceman Wade Redden. There he was out at the Bell Sensplex again yesterday morning, going through informal drills with Senators captain Daniel Alfredsson and two university players, getting in as much skating as possible before leaving for the Big Apple on Tuesday and the next chapter in his ...

Twelve games make up the NHL schedule Thursday night, but three in particular caught our eye: Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, New York Rangers at Washington, Chicago at Detroit all are rematches of playoff series from last season.

Penguins playoff hero Max Talbot, right, won't be with the team as they look to start the season with a win over goalie Henrik Lundqvist and the New York Rangers on Friday.

Written by Associated Press on Oct 3rd, 2009 and filed under Featured , Sports .

Evgeni Malkin and Sidney Crosby watched the Penguins raise their Stanley Cup banner, then got the NHL champions off to a familiar start by scoring their first two goals during a 3-2 victory over the rival New York Rangers on Friday night.

The sting from last season's playoff collapse lasted a little longer for the stunned New York Rangers .

Since the franchise moved from Binghamton to Hartford in 1997, the Wolf Pack have been a resounding success on the ice.

So the Rangers have reconstructed their flanks by essentially trading in Markus Naslund, Nik Antropov, Nikolai Zherdev, Lauri Korpikoski, Fred Sjostrom and Colton Orr for Marian Gaborik, Christopher Higgins, Vinny Prospal, Ales Kotalik, Enver Lisin and Donald Brashear.

Markus Naslund did Sather a favour by announcing his retirement from the NHL, freeing up even more money.

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Great, After taking a trip to Long Island to visit the New York Islanders, we swing back around and hit Broadway to check out where the Blueshirts are headed this year.

Roberto Luongo's cap hit of $5.33 million is much lower than seven other NHL goaltenders.

In an offseason that has seen the likes of Scott Gomez, Paul Mara, Nikolai Zherdev, Markus Naslund, Nik Antropov, Colton Orr, and Blair Betts leave, it has become obvious that this is now John Tortorella's team.

Thata s the burning question after unrestricted free agent winger Markus Naslund signed a two-year, $8-million contract with the New York Rangers on Thursday.

In as ugly and as well-publicized as the split of Jon and Kate Gosselin, the stars and now divorced couple of TLC's Jon & Kate Plus 8 , the Minnesota Wild and Marian Gaborik also opted to part ways this summer after a decade long relationship.

In as ugly and as well-publicized as the split of Jon and Kate Gosselin, the stars and now divorced couple of TLC's Jon & Kate Plus 8 , the Minnesota Wild and Marian Gaborik also opted to part ways this summer after a decade long relationship.

Among the Rangers many offseason plans of transformation, one they have successfully accomplished thus far is getting tougher.

Chris Drury is not a negative guy. He's not going to rally the Rangers troops under his captaincy -- and it's his now and his alone, with the two guys who wore the alternate captain's "A" last season, Scott Gomez and Markus Naslund , gone -- with big speeches or wild behavior.

Upcoming must-see Canucks games of 2009: a Oct. 7, vs Canadiens. Maybe Anahim Lakea s Carey Price will get to play this time, instead of just mopping up.