Igor Shestyorkin News & Stories

No goalie as young as Dustin Wolf has gotten a contract this big or this long. Now, can he live up to it?

The Rangers should be a playoff team again, but is that good enough to satisfy everyone?

I have been thinking about the Washington Capitals a lot lately for reasons that ought to be obvious.

The Rangers' problems are self-inflicted and maybe not fixable.

The Predators, Rangers, and Wild have are looking at big inflection points in the near future.

Some guys are having a blast to start the season. Some teams are very much not.

Yeah, it's already time to be thinking about this.

It's been a really weird start to the season.

Wow, it's a whole new season

Rangers captain Jacob Trouba seems to think so! Isn't that weird?

Sean Shapiro ranks the 15 best goalies going into the 2024-25 NHL season.

Jeremy Swayman wants a big contract, but what's the right AAV?

The tale of the tape for the New York Rangers and Florida Panthers Eastern Conference Finals series in the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs.

Sean Shapiro has a slight rant to get into before talking about a pair of overtime games.

The tale of the tape for the Carolina Hurricanes and New York Rangers second-round series in the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs.

Sean Shapiro brings you the need-to-know details each weekday morning of the Stanley Cup playoffs.

The tale of the tape for the New York Rangers and Washington Capitals first-round series in the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs.

Sean Shapiro and David St-Louis look at the Islanders coaching situation and what is actually happening on the ice since Patrick Roy took over.

Sean Shapiro takes his weekly look around the hockey work with Unnumbered Thoughts, starting with the goalie debate in New York.

This week's trip through Take Town looks at a budding goalie controversy with the New York Rangers, the Arizona Coyotes Whole Deal, and the Edmonton Oilers win streak.

What to do, what to do? When fantasy darlings turn sour grapes, Cam Robinson helps you find a way to handle them.

Who needs bold predictions? Sean Shapiro brings you the boring ones that will actually happen this season.

Greg Balloch ranks the 15 best goaltenders in the NHL going into the 2023-24 season.

Lots of fun hockey so far. Long may it continue.

JFresh previews the New Jersey Devils and New York Rangers first-round series in the 2023 NHL playoffs.

We're just past the midway point in the NHL season, and the contenders are starting to separate themselves from the pretenders -- these are the Power Feeling.

After a few days away, it's nice to catch a ride back to Take Town.

The Rangers were supposed to "take a step" but it looks like people forgot to say the last part: "backwards."

This may look to you like a standard NHL "power rankings," but let me assure you, this is anything but. The Power Feelings are based on how Ryan Lambert feels about a team's Stanley Cup odds.

JFresh identifies the biggest factor for each NHL team in the upcoming 2022-23 season.

The Edmonton Oilers are in deep trouble against the Colorado Avalanche. EP Rinkside senior columnist Ryan Lambert has this week's playoff edition of What We Learned.

JFresh breaks down the Eastern Conference Final Series between the Rangers and Lightning.

Dimitri Filipovic takes a look at how the Avalanche finally got over the hump in round two by beating the Blues, and how the Rangers came back once again to beat the Hurricanes in seven.

The Carolina Hurricanes struggles on the road are well-documented, but lucky for them, Game 7 against the New York Rangers takes place in Raleigh tonight. Ryan Lambert looks at their road-home splits to see what sort of advantage that confers

JFresh looks at the key stats and key players from the second-round Stanley Cup Playoff series with the New York Rangers and Carolina Hurricanes.

Dimitri Filipovic takes a look at this year's three finalists for the Hart Trophy, the tremendous seasons they had respectively, and whether the voters got it right.

Dimitri Filipovic takes a look at this year's three finalists for the Vezina Trophy, the tremendous seasons they had respectively, and whether the voters got it right.

EP Rinkside goaltending expert Catherine Silverman previews every goalie matchup in the first round of the 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs

Dimitri Filipovic and Ryan Lambert help get you ready for the four first round matchups out East, by highlighting one specific trend to watch for each team heading into the postseason.

Elite Prospects analytics columnist JFresh previews the New York Rangers and Pittsburgh Penguins Eastern Conference quarterfinals playoff series.

It's (almost) all about the West in this week's top thee NHL storylines from EP Rinkside senior columnist Ryan Lambert.

EP Rinkside analytics expert JFresh profiles the players in a wide-open Hart Trophy race, looking at the cases for and against each player.

One of the final regular season tuneups for the Rangers and Hurricanes felt like a playoff game. Abbey Mastracco was on hand for the action at Madison Square Garden.

Sidney Crosby is guaranteed to finish the season at a point-per-game rate for the 17th time in his career. EP Rinkside senior columnist Ryan Lambert thinks that's pretty good, plus more from around the NHL in this week's Take Town.

The New Jersey Devils will once again miss the playoffs, but they're approach to play the final 20 games as "playoff" games helped them get a big rivalry win over the Rangers.

The Calgary Flames are a credible contender, and this is the year to go all-in. Ryan Lambert looks at what exactly the Calgary Flames need to add as they gear up for the trade deadline.

EP Rinkside senior columnist Ryan Lambert looks at the 3 stars from the hockey world in the 20th week of the NHL season.

The Edmonton Oilers are a team in crisis, and they got to that point largely because of poor play in-goal. EP Rinkside analytics columnist Jack Fraser looks at the Oilers options on the trading market should they look to shore up their crease.

Nearly every team has played at least 41 games this season. Fantasy expert Cam Robinson has his predictions for the second half of the season.

JFresh breaks down why the Rangers' goaltending and special teams-fueled first half is a house of cards, and what would have to change to make it sustainable.

Dimitri Filipovic writes about how goalie tandems have been performing so far this season, which starters have been carrying the biggest workload, and which backups have been earning more starts.

Dimitri Filipovic answers your questions about the uneven start for the Rangers, where the Ducks go from here, and how analytics are changing the way we watch games.

The New York Rangers signed Adam Fox to a massive seven-year, $66.5 million contract extension. In this article, Ryan Lambert looks at what it means for the Rangers in the years to come.

The Florida Panthers are scratching and clawing their way to the top of the Power Feelings, which ranks the league according to Rinkside senior columnist Ryan Lambert's feelings about their chances of winning a cup. And you can't tell him he's wrong because these are his feelings and feelings can't be wrong.

Ryan Lambert looks at the five goaltenders most likely to contend for the Vezina Trophy as the NHL's best goaltender in the 2021-22 season.

We've ranked the top 100 skater prospects this week, and now we're following that up with Elite Prospects goalie expert Catherine Silverman's look at the top goalie prospects in the sport.

JFresh dives into the teams that missed the playoffs in the East and Central Division

Dimitri Filipovic takes a look at the surprising changes the New York Rangers made in their front office, the big decisions that loom ahead, and what they can learn from other teams.

Can the Olympic Athletes from Russia pull off an improbable gold model repeat at the 2022 Olympic games?

Cam Robinson debuts his new weekly fantasy feature, aptly named 'Fantasy Weekly.' Robinson gets you up to speed on the players to watch in this weekly fantasy column, and Igor Shestyorkin is leading the way.

It wasn't enough for the New York Rangers to win the second-overall pick in last year's NHL Draft Lottery. No, they had to go ahead and win this year's first-overall...

Last week, EliteProspects counted down the 75 best skater prospects outside of the NHL. Next up, the goaltenders. I’ve gone to the liberty of ranking the 15 best targets outside...

After a hectic NHL Trade Deadline this week, AHL clubs have one more chance to shape their rosters. Next up is the AHL trade/loan deadline, set for this coming Monday...

Bring on the youth movement for the Laval Rocket – and by extension the parent Montreal Canadiens — as the NHL Trade Deadline approaches. While the Habs continue their own...

The American Hockey League plays Friday and Saturday this weekend before the schedule halts for the annual AHL All-Star Classic. When the league’s 31 teams resume play next week, they...

The New York Rangers could hardly bring star goaltending prospect Igor Shestyorkin over to North America for AHL development only to stick him with the skeleton crew that wrapped up...

After an eventful close to 2019 with plenty of drama, New York Islanders top prospect Josh Ho-Sang battled a more pedestrian workplace challenge to start 2020. AHL games start to...

Roughly one-third of the AHL regular-season schedule has been completed, and the early returns are murky at best. Even by the AHL’s typically topsy-turvy ways and its nature as a...

After a 2018-19 season that went adrift and never recovered, the Utica Comets have lit up the AHL this fall. And at long last, there are very real signs of...

Another eight-month journey begins this Friday for the American Hockey League, the NHL’s top developmental league. A parade of first-round picks are on their way to the AHL to begin...

Some are ready for Henrik “The King” Lundqvist to retire. He’s built a Hockey Hall of Fame resume already, but some hold the lack of a Stanley Cup ring against...

I’m sure the excitement of most New York Rangers fans at seeing their team’s top spot in the EP Rinkside Prospect Pool Rankings is met with equal parts bewilderment. We’re...