Season Preview: New York Rangers

Another excruciatingly long summer is over. Actual hockey games are on the horizon. Because this is the 265th most widely read hockey blog on the internets, MYFO felt a deep obligation to our dozens of readers to prepare this series of previews telling you about every single team in the NHL. By “prepare” we mean, we found other people to write many of them for us. We were looking for people who (unlike us) might have an actual clue about these teams, but were also eager/willing/dumb/not self-respecting enough to work for free. Within those constraints, we think we did an admirable job.

Today’s preview of the Rangers is brought to you by First Derivative of The Puck Stops Here.

Well, being that it’s either a Ranger preview or the script for Mystery, Alaska (Courtesy of Hex), I felt it was necessasry to defend my Prince of Whales Conference Contenders for the upcoming 08/09 season.

The Return of MYFO’s (P)friday Perfunctory Photo Pop Probatory

Welcome to another edition of MYFO’s (P)friday Perfunctory Photo Pop Probatory. Every Friday Whenever the hell I feel like it, I will put up a few photos and ask a few multiple choice questions. Today’s quiz involves photos from Valtteri Filppula’s day with the Cup in Finland a few weeks ago as well as a couple of photos when from Henrik Zetterberg’s day in Sweden. Keep your eyes on your own papers, people – at least if you want them to remain in your ocular cavities, that is.

MYFO’s (P)friday Perfunctory Photo Pop Probatory

I've Got It Bad, Got It Bad, Got It Bad...

Welcome to another edition of MYFO’s (P)friday Perfunctory Photo Pop Probatory. Every Friday Whenever the hell I feel like it, I will put up a photo or two and ask a few multiple choice questions. This time we take a look at some photos from July 17th and 18th, when Mike Babcock took Lord Stanley’s Cup on an all-expenses paid trip to Saskatoon. The quiz…begins…now.

MYFO Live Blog of Game 4! Be There Or Be Square!

Just a heads up from your friendly neighborhood hockey blog before everyone leaves for their Friday night festivities: we will be live blogging Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Finals on Saturday night at 8:00 p.m. EST. So be sure to take a few hours out of your busy weekend to spend some quality time with MYFO tomorrow evening – it’s usually a hoot and holler. The usual cast of characters of course will be there and we hope a few new ones will stop by as well. You can find a link to the live blog below, so make sure you get all your chores done in time (whatever they may be), drop by MYFO and participate in the tomfoolery and skullduggery.

UPDATE: The live blog can be found by following this link. Jump down the rabbit hole, if you like.

So, about those ratings

Apparently, fans remembered that the NHL exists this off-season. Ratings are on the rise, and Games 1 and 2 of the Stanley Cup Finals on Versus broke all sorts of records for the channel. After the jump are some interesting bits of trivia concerning the highest hockey numbers on cable since 2002.

Winner, Winner. Chicken Dinner.

Morning and welcome back from the long weekend, folks. Below the jump are the winners of the Jerseys, Posters, and Stick Blade in the Melt Your Face-Off Stanley Cup Picks Challenge, Sponsored by Versus.

MYFO Liveblog: Stanley Cup Finals Game 1

Hey cats and kittens, here is the link for the liveblog tonight. Feel free to follow along and comment at will.

Don’t forget to go a couple posts down and enter our Finals contest to win free Versus swag!