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A change of scenery is always good. The Mouth thought ex- Ranger Peter Prucha needed one and that came to fruition. The only problem was he was sent to the Phoenix Coyotes.The downside for a player joining the Yotes, is that the franchise is located in the desert, where nothing grows, not even flowers, except cactus of course.The Mouth quips that the same lack of growth can be said for the young hockey players that try to develop there in the arid and barren wastelands of Arizona even the... Phoenix franchise is stunted and wilting fast.During this past off season the Rangers did business with the Phoenix club yet again and acquired Enver Lisin and in exchange sent Lauri Korpikoski to his NHL developmental funeral in Phoenix.Enver Lisin has a NHL pre requisite of hi-lite reel type goals, he also has a companion low-lite reel of defensive lapses, Enver is a project for sure. But he can get better and so far he has been.In the Mouth's opinion the kid has played well. After a camp where coach John Tortorella called him out on his unacceptable defense, the kid has broken his butt to hustle on every play and prove the critics wrong. The following clip shows a couple examples of this.The hustle shown on the video culminates when Lisin scores his first goal as a Blueshirt. He netted his first as a Ranger against the hapless Toronto Maple Leafs this past Saturday, October 17th, 2009 in a game which the Rangers won 4-1.more>>

Looks like Donald Brashear is going to be a busy ruffian this year as he has already had two fights in his first three games. The season is young but Donald is fitting in well and making the fourth line a positive intangible with both offensive effort and body work.The Big Rig used his most useful asset, which are his dukes when he threw down against Matt Carkner of the Ottawa Senators on October 3rd, 2009 at MSG.Matt Carkner who is the cousin of former Blueshirt defenseman Terry Carkner, is no... stranger to brawling as he once accumulating 335 penalty minutes in the AHL for the Cleveland Barons. The fight itself is uneventful but there is a punch thrown by Brashear that catches Carkner’s helmet flush on. Lucky For Carkner it was his helmet that flew off and not his head. more>>

The Mouth wishes to Thank you Michael Del Zotto for being the first Ranger teenage defenseman to score a goal since Mario Marios did it during the Carter administration. MDZ as the kids call him, did it in only his second NHL game and his first as a Ranger at Madison Square Garden. The goal is also a great example of teamwork as the entire unit of Five touched the puck before Del Zotto put his first NHL biscuit into Senator’s goalie Pascal Leclaire’s basket.

Donald Brashear had his first fight as a Ranger as he took on a familiar fight face to Ranger fans in the 6’4 227 lb Eric Godard. The tussle was initiated by Godard and The Big Rig was more then happy to oblige.The opening of the fight is where Brashear showed his quickness, scoring early and stunning the Pittsburgh enforcer Godard. . Godard has always been a game fighter as we found out last year in Colton Orr’s “GigantOrr” seriesIt was great to see the Big Rig shake the cob webs off from the... off season and get down and dirty and do extremely well in his first official regular season battle as a Blueshirt.more>>

Ten Rangers appeared with Dave on his lae night television program to help him out with his Top 10 segment. The Topic was "Top 10 things you would never hear a Hockey Player say"

The Mouth’s Hockey interviewer soul mate Rose “The Sports Lady” Beiderman talks with Ranger great Rod Gilbert in what probably is the most graphic expose ever done on Mr. Gilbert. The clip is chock full of adult humor some of which I think actually takes Rod by surprise, even though he knew what he was getting into when he sat down with Rose.It may take you a few seconds to recognize who is actually under that powdered wig, if you don’t recognize her at all you might not get premium cable... service. The“Sports Lady character is being played by the talented comedienne and actress Susie Essman. Susie is a regular on HBO’s “Curb your Enthusiasm.” Essman plays the hilarious and foul mouthed Susie Greene wife of Jeff Greene who is Larry David’s best friend and manager in the series.more>>

“The Big Rig“ video feature that we are about to embark on for the first time will continue in time line a recorded documentation of the tussles and throw downs of one Donald Brashear from start to finish as long as his Ranger career dictates.In this, the debut episode of “The Big Rig” Brashear tangles with former Hartford Wolf Pack puncher the 6’4 235 lb Brandon Sugden. The fight took place in a Pre-season game that took place at MSG on September 24th, 2009.Sugden who was trying to impress the... Cap coaches, and win a spot as their tough guy came at Brashear with all he had, which led it to be a long and brutish affair. more>>

This clip may be the grand daddy of them all as far as Bizarre Bench Clearer's go. It's also one of the best isolated displays of an unlikely combination of viciousness and one of total hilarity.This "event" most likely can only be topped by the Bruins invading the MSG stands on December 23rd, 1979. What makes the following clip so redonkulous is the participants involved not really the fisticuffs. It all happened at MSG on February 21st, 1979.The Rangers representative on this trip into... bizarre-o-land was none other than Staten Island born and bred Nick Fotiu. Nick who actually despite taking a stick to the head, then staving off a linesman, trying to cut off his adversary in the hallway before he reached his locker room was the most sane of the combatants.That’s because Nicky had become involved with the craziest mutha to ever lace up a pair of skates at the Pro level, Steve “Demoltion Durby” Durbano. The Mouth can not be convinced otherwise that Steve has no equal when it comes to being the biggest nut job ever to play in the NHL and throw in the WHA as well.Steve’s life experiences on and off the ice are ones of folk tales and legend. In the following clip Durbano gets in a stick fight with Nick Fotiu and while Nicky is being held off by the late great linesman John D'Amico. Durbano comes over top hitting Fotiu with nothing but lumber in a vicious stick attack.This all happens in a nano-second during the scrum in front of the Blues bench. The Mouth splices the stick attack four consecutive times into the video so that the viewer can see it, because it comes sneaky and quick just like every other Steve Durbano attack did.The following night on Marv Albert’s WNBC broadcast he deemed the Blues loony tune defenseman “Hatchet Man“ and said that Durbano “Represented the pure sickness element in hockey today.” I say Marv had it right, and after watching the video I think you will agree.more>>

Jordin Tootoo and Tommy Sestito Fight Ends with Injury after Fall during the first period of the Predators vs Blue Jackets game at the Sommet Center on 9-19-09

The Mouth feels compelled right off the bat to let his Rangers Crisis fans know that the following clip is a comedy piece. He felt it necessary to immediately talk you off the ledge before you got to the images of a Park Ranger Bob or some goofy Blueshirt version of the Islanders old mascot Niles.The latter Ranger version he imagines could often be seen slapping hands with Ranger fans during games to basically distract people from the two minute frustrations we Ranger fans call a Power Play.It... is an interesting concept however, though it would never work, not in NYC that’s for sure.The poor son of a gun in the Mascot suit would end up taking the brunt of every Ranger fan frustration and would have a target on his back a mile wide for every verbal assault in the book a Ranger ticket holder crowd could think of. more>>

The Russian Rifleman Evegeny Grachev has been outstanding and equally so has been Rushkie Ranger centerman Artem Anisimov who showed off some awesome moves in the following video.Artem Anisimov demonstrated an out of this world move against Bruin defender Jeff Penner and finished it off with an outstanding juke to beat Boston Goaltender Tim Thomas in a preseason game that took place on June 19th 2009.

The Mouth is feeling a little under whelmed by the Rangers Draft selections this past weekend and decides to turn his focus to an absolute gem of a pick the Blue Shirts made in last years 2008 entry draft by choosing Russian Rifleman Evgeny Grachev. The Big man thinks his Rangers should be charged with highway robbery after stealing this 6’3 211 lb 18yr old stud from the Third Round of last year draft with the 75th pick overall. Grachev is a pure speed demon who also has elite scoring and... playmaking ability. A combination that should have even the most pessimistic Ranger fan anticipating his arrival to the big club.The Mouth provides hi-lites of Grachev’s initial year in juniors with the Brampton Batallion, a year in which Evengy was named OHL rookie of the year, The Mouth as usual provides the commentary.more>>

The Mouth once again presents his Ranger Crisis.com only feature GigantORR Episode #6. The feature continues in time line the pugilistic trials and tribulations of the Broadway Bruiser Colton Orr’s fight card in the 2008-2009 season.It all starts off with a clip from a Ranger/Ottawa game on November 22nd 2008 where the Blue Shirts trailed badly late in the Third Period and Colton Orr took exception to a check that NHL weasel extraordinaire Jarkko Ruutu put on teammate Freddy Sjostrom. It was... at that point, Orr decided to try and rearrange Ruutu’s proboscis.Following the Ruutu clip, next shown is Colton Orr’s SIXTH fight of the season on November 26th 2008. A ROUND TWO battle against Tampa’s David Koci. The Mouth finds himself eating some rare crow as the “Czechoslovakian Tomato Can” Koci scores a surprising win against Colton this time around. However, as we know GigantORR’s chin is made of steel and Koci wound up paying the price for his rare win by breaking his hand in the tussle and missing a month of playing time. more>>

The Big man fired up The Mouth Mobile and headed to The Brazen Fox bar in White Plains NY to attend a Ranger viewing Party for Game Five of the Rangers/ Capital series on April 24th 2009. His sole purpose was to ask Ranger great Jeff Beukeboom about the insidious and dastardly act perpetrated on him via a Matt Johnson sucker punch on November 19th 1998. A sucker job which ended Jeff's career. At the viewing party The Mouth also talked to several Ranger fans who had high hopes for their Blue... Shirts but were disappointed as The Rangers fell to the Capitals 4-0. The Mouth was only allowed brief seconds with Beukeboom , and feeling a bit shortchanged he got back in the Mouth Mobile and made a mad dash to Manhattan to another viewing Party at a bar called Stouts located in the heart of Manhattan.. At this particular viewing party Ranger great Pete Stemkowski attended. But by that time Stemmer had fled the scene and The Mouth interviewed some of the ever optimistic Ranger faithful that still hung around after the disappointing loss. more>>

The Mouth goes over Avery’s actions at the garden in game four against the Capitals on April 22,2009. He supplies the video as well as gives us his sometimes verbose but always truthful opinion about the goings on concerning Sean Avery on that particular Wednesday eve. Also included is his take on the Sean Avery and Tim Thomas incident that happened way back on April 4th 2009. But the coupe de grace is a great look at the top 11 Greatest Sean Avery moments coming into the 2008-2009 NHL... season. more>>