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Goaltenders

30 Henrik Lundqvist
80 Kevin Weekes


Defensemen

3 Michal Rozsival
4 Aaron Ward
6 Darius Kasparaitis
8 Marek Malik
22 Thomas Pöck
23 Karel Rachunek
24 Sandis Ozolinsh
51 Fedor Tyutin




Forwards

5 Matt Cullen
14 Brendan Shanahan
16 Jason Ward
18 Adam Hall
19 Blair Betts
25 Petr Prucha
28 Colton Orr
41 Jed Ortmeyer
44 Ryan Hollweg
68 Jaromir Jagr
81 Marcel Hossa
82 Martin Straka
92 Michael Nylander

The New York Rangers (NYR) are a professional ice hockey team based in New York City, New York, USA. They play in the National Hockey League (NHL).




The Rangers and their local rivals, the New York Islanders and New Jersey Devils, are all members of the NHL's Atlantic Division, guaranteeing plenty of regular season meetings. This is unique among New York City's major league sports teams; Major League Baseball's New York Yankees and New York Mets are in different leagues although they play more now due to interleague competition, and the National Football League's New York Jets and New York Giants are in different conferences, giving them little opportunity to play each other. This allows the Rangers to maintain a great rivalry between NYC area teams.

The post-lockout Rangers, under new head coach Tom Renney, have seen the team move away from high-priced veterans towards a group of talented young players such as Petr Prucha, Dominic Moore and Blair Betts, but the focus of the team remains on veteran superstar Jaromir Jagr.

The Rangers were expected to struggle during the 2005-06 season for their eighth consecutive season out of the postseason, but behind stellar performances by Swedish rookie goaltender Henrik Lundqvist, Martin Straka, Prucha and Jagr, the Rangers finished the season with their best record since 1993-94 (44-26-12).

Jagr failed to win his sixth Art Ross Trophy as scoring champion in 05-06 (the San Jose Sharks' Joe Thornton claimed the award, his first, with 125 points over "The Jaguar"'s 123) but he won his third Pearson Award (players' choice as outstanding player).

He has thus tied Guy Lafleur in third, and needs one more to tie his ex-centerman, "Super Mario" Lemieux, in second and two more to tie Wayne Gretzky in first. Ironically, Jagr was playing for the Pittsburgh Penguins in "The Great One's" last NHL game.