From Andrew Gross at Ranger Rants: Haven’t heard back from Ales Kotalik’s agent, Larry Kelly, but it’s becoming clear that one of the hold-ups to this deal, if not the main one, is Kotalik taking his time weighing his options as he has a limited no-trade clause in his three-year, $9 million deal. Frankly, it’s a bit of a head-scratcher. If the Flames, who have been scouting the Rangers for a couple of weeks, wanted Kotalik despite his lengthy stint as a Rangers’ healthy scratch (eig…

Props to RWD for bringing this to my attention, being she is such a huge Marian Gaborik fans I thought I would post it.

In a game that featured the two biggest free agent acquisitions of last summer, the New York Gaboriks, er, Rangers, played like a desperate team, while the Colorado Avalanche find themselves a team that needs to desperately start playing. Marian Gaborik embarrassed Craig Anderson while Chad Johnson shut down the rest of the Avs as

New York Rangers Marian Gaborik nets 10th career hat trick in win over Avalanche.

While all Tortorella wanted to talk about in the post game was about how well Ocho Cinco played…and he definitely played great, to me this entire night was about Marian Gaborik.

It turns out that Friday was an even worse day for Ranger prospects than we realized. It turns out that during the Quebec Rempart's game against the Halifax Mooseheads that Ryan Bourque (2009 3rd) suffered his 2nd concussion of the season.