Rangers give up the farm to get Martin St. Louis

Former Vermont Catamount star forward Martin St. Louis has been traded from the Tampa Bay Lightning to the New York Rangers for forward Ryan Callahan. Included in the deal, a 1st Round Pick (2015)and a conditional 2nd Round Pick (2014).

#NYR Rangers trade Callahan, aqcuire St. Louis http://t.co/O87uKDoN0L
— Katie Strang (@KatieStrangESPN) March 5, 2014

Martin St-Louis, who has been a 38-year-old baby since the Olympic announcement, gets his wish by being traded to NYR. Legend tarnished.
— Ken Campbell (@THNKenCampbell) March 5, 2014

Zdeno Chara gets hit in the face by Ryan Callahan, no call on the play

The Officiating has been poor in the Stanley Cup Playoffs this year, there is no doubt about it. This is an obvious high stick by Rangers forward Ryan Callahan on Boston Bruins defenseman Zdeno Chara that went uncalled, that should drawn a double minor penalty. Four officials on the ice and no one saw it. The Officials did manage to call a very weak penalty on Jaromir Jagr that was much less serious than this.

J.P. Parise back tracks on comments

Zach Parise (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I am one of those fans that is holding out hope that former Fighting Sioux forward Zach Parise ends up signing a free agent contract with the Minnesota Wild in the off season and finishes his hockey career in the "State of hockey."

After reading after reading J.P. Parise's comments the other day I got to thinking that the Rangers could be a destination for much sought after free agent player. 

Denis Gorman, New Jersey --- J.P. Parise was quoted in Friday’s edition of Newsday as saying, Zach “likes [John Tortorella] a lot,” and that his son “would fit in right there” with the Rangers. Zach Parise was a member of the 2010 U.S. Olympic Men’s hockey team, which Tortorella was an assistant coach on. Ryan Callahan was also a member of that team.

J.P. Parise went on to clarify his comments  he made about the Rangers being a possible team that might seek Parise's services.

Tom Gulitti, Fire and Ice --- “I have to say I was extremely disappointed in how my comments were portrayed in today’s newspaper article,” J.P. Parise said. “I would never speak for Zach under any circumstance. He has not talked to me about anything other than the playoffs and we have not discussed anything but the playoffs and that is 100 percent where his focus is right now and I have absolutely no intentions to distract and get things away from his focus right now.”

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NHL has turtled in fight against head shots?

Daniel Alfredsson (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Check out this post, the author has a point. I am sure that we will see this subject discussed a lot in the next few weeks and probably into the summer.

ED WILLES, POSTMEDIA NEWS --- That's bad enough. But it seems there's been at least one vicious head shot in every frickin' game since the Weber incident: the Rangers' Carl Hagelin's hit on Daniel Alfredsson, Chris Phillips' hit on Ryan Callahan, the Sharks' T.J. Galiardi's hit on the Blues' Andy McDonald, the Blues' Vladimir Sobotka's sucker punch on the Sharks' Dominic Moore. And that's just for starters.
The resulting spit storm has been a nightmare for the NHL. This is the one time of the year when the focus of the North American sports media is on hockey but the focus isn't on the game. Instead, the spotlight is on a sport that appears to be almost criminally violent.

The league actually allowed itself to believe it was getting in front of the head-shot issue, but when given the chance to demonstrate just how seriously they're taking it, they turtled.

Rangers Ryan Callahan nets 4 goals versus Flyers

Nice to see the American boy and Rangers forward Ryan Callahan getting four goals against the Philadelphia Flyers yesterday. Callahan single handily destroyed Eastern Conference Leaders the Philadelphia Flyers 7-0.