With the NHL season paused until after Christmas, we figured this was the perfect time to release our initial 2022 NHL draft-eligible prospect rankings. We are hoping this brings a little bit of hockey-related entertainment to you all. This is more of just a ratings dump for now, and we will follow up in the coming weeks and months with additional content to provide more context and analysis to you all. Below you will find the aggregate site and individual ranks from Drew Way, George Obremski and Rich Coyle. As always, we organize players into tiers, and we stress that the ..read more

Welcome to our annual New York Rangers Organizational Prospect Rankings! In the past, we provided ranks and analysis of who we felt where the top-25 prospects within the Rangers’ prospect pipeline. This year we are changing things up a bit and ranking the top-40 prospects in the system–which represents just about the full pipeline–and then providing analysis for select players that each of our analysts wanted to add a bit more color to. As always, the prospect rankings and analysis are a collaboration between Drew Way, George Obremski and Rich Coyle. The order in which prospects appear in the ..read more

*This is a guest post by Blueshirts Breakaway Patreon subscriber Jacob Berkowitz, who provides his player and team point predictions for the Ranger’s 2021-2022 NHL season* The New York Rangers certainly had an offseason. We will leave the analysis of our thoughts on the strategy and direction behind the moves to the side for now, and instead focus on our predictions for key players and the team as a whole over the 2021-2022 NHL season. The goal is to keep this short and sweet and keep the focus on the production prediction and one or two key reasons for the prediction. Forwards With the loss o ..read more

Featured image courtesy of the Flint Firebirds official website Well Rangers fans, it’s been one hell of a week huh… Generally speaking, I find when fans read draft recap articles like this, the majority are hoping to read good things about the picks, and tend to get pretty defensive if you are negative. Given what I’ve seen from speaking with friends, family and reading social media the past few days, my guess is this mentality may be the opposite this year. It seems just as many people are hoping we talk shit about the picks to further fuel the fire. Not that we ever let fan sentiment or the ..read more

Welcome to the 2021 NHL Mock Draft by the Blueshirts Breakaway draft crew: Drew Way, George Obremski and Rich Coyle. This will be our final article of the 2021 NHL Draft season. We also recently published our final rankings and Drew’s 2021 Ty Smith Memorial Trophy article, both of which we’d love for you to check out if you haven’t already. Just a couple of quick ground rules before we get into the mock draft results: Our methodology for this was NOT to try and predict what each team will do during the draft. We are not insiders, so it would literally be pointless and disingenuous for us to t ..read more

At this point, if you are reading this article it is likely this is not your first experience with my hockey ramblings; whether that be reading my draft content, hearing my annoying voice on the Blueshirts Breakaway podcast or other Rangers-centric podcasts, seeing my tweets or putting up with my endless Moana gifs. So, most of you are probably well aware of my Ty Smith Memorial Trophy schtick and the fact that, while I do try to educate folks on hockey prospects, I also am steadfast in my belief that you need to have fun and you can’t take yourself too seriously with this stuff. I you are fam ..read more

Welcome to the final edition of the 2021 NHL draft rankings from the Blueshirts Breakaway crew. Below you will find the aggregate site and individual ranks from Drew Way, George Obremski and Rich Coyle. As always with our draft analysis, we organize the players into tiers, and we stress that the tiers are far more important than the individual ranks. Our tier methodology is simple: all players on a tier are more or less interchangeable in terms of their exact ordering. Yes, we have slight preferences between the players that go into the individual rankings, but we would not argue against any o ..read more

*This is a guest post by Jack Danielsen* There is a long and forever growing list of NHL players who are beloved by their fanbase because of singular moments, whether they be goals, saves, hits, or even post-game comments (every once and a while, I’ll find myself pulling up Dan Boyle trying to kick Larry Brooks and “the other one, Brett?” Cyrgalis out of the Rangers’ locker room). These are the players who cause you to immediately remember everything that happened in their seasons or maybe just their few games with the team. You’ll probably even remember some things you never even meant t ..read more

*This is a guest post by Jack Danielsen* I sincerely hope some production company somewhere picks up the rights to tell the story of this Rangers season because, at this rate, I almost don’t believe it’s going to stop after the last game of the season against the Bruins on Saturday.  If you haven’t watched the incident that took place during Monday’s Capitals vs. Rangers game I encourage you to watch it for yourself and come to your own conclusions about it. Oh, right – forgot about Tuesday’s statement, too; read that afterwards. Also, watch the beginning of Wednesday’s game. Or just ..read more

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