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Blueshirt Bandwidth is a weekly podcast dedicated to the New York Rangers, brought to you by the team at Blueshirt Banter. Hosted by Joe Fortunato and Eric Kohn, the show offers in-depth analysis, game breakdowns, and the latest news on the Rangers. Whether you're looking for player insights, trade rumors, or post-game reactions, Blueshirt Bandwidth delivers everything a Rangers fan needs to stay updated. Tune in each week for commentary, passionate discussion, assorted nonsense, and all things related to the New York Rangers.
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It's the 100th episode of Blueshirt Bandwidth. They said we wouldn't get here. Who said that? We're not sure, but they definitely exist and they definitely said it. We guess this is the John Davidson Episode, as he's the only Ranger to have worn 00 in a game. Joe is calling in from a hotel with poor internet and no video, marking the milestone with (fittingly) the roughest audio setup in the show's history. From there, Joe and Eric break down the reported Eeli Tolvanen signing—a one-year, $1.5 million deal—and what it means for the bottom nine, sketching out new forward combinations and debating who gets squeezed out (Taylor Raddysh, Matt Rempe, Adam Sykora) versus who should actually be the 13th forward. They also revisit the Scott Morrow debate, argue over how many more years the Rangers can lean on a 28-year-old Adam Fox and 30-year-old Igor Shesterkin, and reopen the case for the franchise's worst trade ever—Sergei Zubov and Petr Nedved for Ulf Samuelsson and Luc Robitaille, or Pavel Buchnevich for a practically nothing. Plus: where Connor Hellebuyck could actually land and if Auston Matthews and Connor McDavid will command the max in their next contracts. Give it a listen! Podcast Ombudsman Report for Blueshirt Bandwidth Ep. 99 Watch & subscribe to the podcast on YouTube Subscribe to Blueshirt Banter for $85/year to read and comment on all of our great content!
Episode 99 of Blueshirt Bandwidth is the Wayne Gretzky Episode, obviously—Eric is out, so Chip steps in and then unveils an over/under betting board on the season ahead that carries most of the show. A Gabe Perreault assists line turns into a real conversation about what Will Cuylle's next contract should look like. From there: whether Quinn Hughes stays put in Minnesota and Jason Robertson in Dallas, why a Dylan Larkin trade doesn't make sense for the Rangers right now, and another round of Corey Pronman pile-on. Plus: Kevin Hayes signing in the KHL, the Hartford Wolf Pack's new coaching staff, and Joe's New Haven pizza rankings. Give it a listen! Podcast Ombudsman Report for Blueshirt Bandwidth Ep. 98 Watch & subscribe to the podcast on YouTube Subscribe to Blueshirt Banter for $85/year to read and comment on all of our great content!
Episode 98 of Blueshirt Bandwidth is a nameless one—no Ranger has ever worn No. 98—but Joe and Eric still find plenty to dig into. They break down Scott Morrow's new one-year, two-way extension and what it does (and doesn't) say about his future with the team. Then, they torch Corey Pronman for leaving Gabe Perreault off his rankings of the top 156 NHL players and prospects under 23 entirely. From there it's a loaded mailbag: private equity buying into pro sports, the Cutter Gauthier fallout in Anaheim, what Nikita Kucherov's next contract could look like, whether Drake Batherson or Alex DeBrincat makes more sense as a trade target, and more. Give it a listen! Podcast Ombudsman Report for Blueshirt Bandwidth Ep. 97 Watch & subscribe to the podcast on YouTube Subscribe to Blueshirt Banter for $85/year to read and comment on all of our great content!
Episode 97 is the Matt Gilroy Episode, and Joe and Eric revisit Gilroy's famously wooden commercial cameo before running through his actual Rangers résumé (142 games over three seasons, plus stops in Tampa, Florida, and Ottawa). The Rangers' new sports performance hires—Matt Price, Mike Wagner, Matt Hawkey, and the additions to the training staff—turn into a longer conversation about Quentin Dolan's growing footprint in the organization and whether James Dolan is setting up to eventually hand him the team. Adam Fox getting ranked 13th among NHL defensemen by NHL.com annoys Joe and Eric greatly, and a mailbag question about Will Cuylle, Noah Laba, and Gabe Perreault's next contracts turns into a real case for locking up Perreault now, before the offer-sheet market catches up to him. Plus: Your questions that lead to a debate about menswear. Give it a listen! Podcast Ombudsman Report for Blueshirt Bandwidth Ep. 96 Watch & subscribe to the podcast on YouTube Subscribe to Blueshirt Banter for $85/year to read and comment on all of our great content!
Episode 96 of Blueshirt Bandwidth is the Emerson Etem episode. Joe and Eric dig into whether Braden Schneider's one-year, arbitration-avoiding deal actually makes him easier to trade, tying it to the Yankees' demotions of Anthony Volpe and Jason Domínguez and the case for trading a prospect a year too early rather than a year too late. A Scott Morrow mailbag question spirals into a standing moratorium on trading with the Carolina Hurricanes and a rundown of the Rangers' worst draft misses—Lias Andersson, Vitali Kravtsov, and Dylan McIlrath over Cam Fowler and Vladimir Tarasenko—with credit to Chris Drury for firing Gordie Clark's regime before it could pass on Gabe Perreault. Also covered: whether James Dolan trading the Knicks and Rangers for the Yankees would actually be a downgrade and early picks on which NHL coach gets fired first. Plus: the return of jail-or-no-jail airport rulings, a listener asking what it costs to never hear Joe say "catheter" again, Morgan Freeman versus James Spader to narrate your life, ranch versus blue cheese, and a F***, Marry, Kill featuring Chip's imaginary sister. Podcast Ombudsman Report for Blueshirt Bandwidth Ep. 95 Watch & subscribe to the podcast on YouTube Subscribe to Blueshirt Banter for $85/year to read and comment on all of our great content!
It's an entirely un-New York Rangers related bonus podcast, as Eric and Chip spend some time after the MLB trade deadline pondering if the Los Angeles Dodgers are bad for baseball, and then try to make sense of the moves—or, more specifically, the lack of moves—the New York Yankees made. Give it a listen (if you're also a baseball fan)!
Episode 95 of Blueshirt Bandwidth is the Vinni Lettieri Episode. Joe and Eric break down Kirill Marchenko's availability out of Columbus and why the Rangers—having already spent their futures on Dorofeyev—don't have the assets left to get in on him, then split over whether Jared McCann is worth acquiring, with Joe a hard no and Eric more willing to pay up for center depth. The back half covers a Cup-timeline projection, whether Christian Pulisic is the USMNT's answer to Alexi Lafrenière, gut-feeling predictions on which East and West bubble teams make and miss the playoffs, a Braden Schneider-for-Jake DeBrusk trade proposal, and why Rod Brind'Amour—not Raleigh—is the real reason stars keep turning down Carolina. Plus: a closing detour through Cincinnati chili, Altoona pizza, and the worst thing Joe has ever seen in an airport bathroom. Podcast Ombudsman Report for Blueshirt Bandwidth Ep. 94 Watch & subscribe to the podcast on YouTube Subscribe to Blueshirt Banter for $85/year to read and comment on all of our great content!
Episode 94 of Blueshirt Bandwidth is the Gabe Perreault Episode, with apologies to Corey Pronman who won't accept the Perreault episode being any higher than 283rd. From there, Braden Schneider's one-year, $5.5 million deal to avoid arbitration sparks a long argument over whether it makes him easier to trade or just proves the Rangers still don't know what they want to do with him, which leads into Steve Yzerman getting pushed out as Red Wings GM for the same sin—sitting on his hands—that cost Bill Guerin his shot at Vincent Trocheck and, in turn, at Dylan Larkin. From there, it's a mailbag that covers Patrick Laine vs. re-signing Patrick Kane, Ty Kartye's odds of making the team out of camp, gut-feeling picks on the rest of the opening night roster, and a debate over whether Carolina's Cup run proves teams don't need a true No. 1 guy. Plus: defining a sport, the Blueshirt Banter staff's line combinations, Chip's ten-out-of-ten fictional sister, wrestling divas, chicken parm vs. eggplant parm, and a Statesboro mailbag question that ends with a hard sell for Chicago. Podcast Ombudsman Report for Blueshirt Bandwidth Ep. 93 Watch & subscribe to the podcast on YouTube Subscribe to Blueshirt Banter for $85/year to read and comment on all of our great content!
Episode 93 of Blueshirt Bandwidth is the Mika Zibanejad Episode—Joe and Chip, in his second straight week as guest host, break down James Dolan handing the Rangers' and Knicks' COO job to his son Quentin and what it does (and doesn't) mean for Chris Drury, torch the Carolina Hurricanes for engraving the owner's entire family on the Stanley Cup while leaving off a longtime equipment manager, and spend a long stretch on Braden Schneider's arbitration filing—how arbitration actually works, a right-side defense logjam that includes Scott Morrow's waiver issue and Alberts Smits' Olympic pedigree, and whether the Rangers are quietly stalling to flip Schneider's rights to someone. Plus: the Leo Carlsson offer sheet reshaping the market for Bedard and Celebrini, who scores for the Rangers without Artemi Panarin, a Wolf Pack-vs.-Rangers mailbag question, and a Gilligan's Island-and-Bash-at-the-Beach closer that does not go well for Joe. Podcast Ombudsman Report for Blueshirt Bandwidth Ep. 92 Watch & subscribe to the podcast on YouTube Subscribe to Blueshirt Banter for $85/year to read and comment on all of our great content!
Episode 92 of Blueshirt Bandwidth is the Michael Nylander Episode—Joe and Chip are joined by Timo Seppa, director of hockey analytics at Quinnipiac and an eight-year NHL analytics veteran (whose old direct report, Chris Ramondelli, now works in the Rangers' own analytics department), to dig into why Sean Durzi's power-play numbers cratered next to Sergachev in Utah, how Marcus Pettersson and Durzi actually solve Mike Sullivan's puck-retrieval problem, and how you quantify a "mutant" prospect like Cole Beaudoin without just going on vibes. Then Joe and Chip take over for the hot stove: Danny Briere's four-first-round-pick offer sheet for Leo Carlson reshapes the RFA market overnight, Mike Grier gets torched for the zero-retention Darnell Nurse trade after an otherwise masterful draft, and Braden Schneider trade buzz collides with a defensive-pairing debate nobody can agree on. Plus: Patrick Kane speculation, a Hartford Wolf Pack pipeline preview, an East playoff bracket argument, a stacked mailbag, and a hot-dog-is-a-sandwich rematch that somehow escalates into squares, rectangles, and Chip's nonexistent sister. Podcast Ombudsman Report for Blueshirt Bandwidth Ep. 91 Watch & subscribe to the podcast on YouTube Subscribe to Blueshirt Banter for $85/year to read and comment on all of our great content!
Episode 91 of Blueshirt Bandwidth is the Marcus Naslund (or Sammy Blais?) Episode—Joe and Eric review a free agency day that turned into a full-blown second trade deadline. Vincent Trocheck is dealt to Utah for Sean Durzi, top prospect Cole Beaudoin, and a 2027 third. Marcus Pettersson arrives from Vancouver for a top-10-protected 2030 first, Oliver Bjorkstrand and Joe Veleno add speed and depth, and Will Borgan gets flipped for picks—but nobody can make sense of the Joonas Korpisalo trade or what it means for Dylan Garand. Joe goes on a full rant defending Drury's week, the two debate whether Bill Guerin or Steve Yzerman is the more overrated GM, and Mike Grier's bewildering additions of Jacob Trouba and Darnell Nurse in San Jose get torched. Plus: Charlie Vidal's Ombudsman Report, a mailbag on Drury's-guys-vs-Sullivan's-guys, the Alexander Nikishin/K'Andre Miller/Scott Morrow trade revisited, Bowen Byram's record-setting contract, and a season-ending hot-dog-is-a-sandwich debate that gets far more heated than it should. Give it a listen! Watch & subscribe to the podcast on YouTube Subscribe to Blueshirt Banter for $85/year to read and comment on all of our great content!
Joe and Eric are LIVE for round one of the NHL draft. Within the first 20 minutes, Chris Drury drops a bomb, trading for 25-year-old Pavel Dorofayev—37 goals, 12 playoff goals this past spring—for the 26th overall pick, a third-rounder, and a conditional top-10-protected 2028 first, then locks him up immediately at seven years and $11 million a year. Eric and Joe spend a while just absorbing the enormity of it. Then the Rangers use the fifth pick on Latvian defenseman Alberts Smits, while Chase Reid sits on the board, and the broadcast hits a brief freakout before Chip, and prospect expert Chris and Roberto join to talk everyone down. Also: why it's a good thing the Rangers let St. Louis pay 15 and 29 for Mason McTavish, where Trocheck could actually be headed, why the Florida Panthers are assembling the most hateable roster in recent memory, and why anyone still complaining about giving Jason Robertson $15 million should reconsider. Also Chip's cat Mando opines from three rooms away. Give it a listen! Watch & subscribe to the podcast on YouTube Subscribe to Blueshirt Banter for $85/year to read and comment on all of our great content!
Episode 90 of Blueshirt Bandwidth is the Vlad Nemestnikov Episode—Joe is on a private jet to a Caribbean island, so Eric and Chip are joined by Ryan Mead of Blueshirts Breakaway to relitigate the Artemi Panarin trade in the wake of Brady Tkachuk going to Florida. Ryan thinks Drury got fleeced, Chip argues the age, term, and NMC situation made the trades genuinely incomparable, and Eric zooms out to his "forest vs. trees" thesis on how each Drury move looks defensible in isolation and catastrophic in aggregate. Then Chris Feldman and Roberto from Blueshirt Banter join to break down the first-round mock draft in real time as NHL Trade-mageddon unfolds around them—Eklund to Ottawa, Kyrou to Washington, and the utterly baffling Bowen Byram deal that sent the fourth overall pick to Buffalo while everyone on the pod tried to keep up. Plus: the mailbag covers dodgeball lineups, the rebuild/retool semantics debate, Adam Fox's future, Chip's CBA proposal to rein in no-movement clauses, Ryan's bold prediction that Pat Brisson is the next Rangers GM, and the Ombudsman Report on Scott Stevens' body count, cup-winning goalie archetypes, and Chuck Knobloch erasure. Podcast Ombudsman Report for Blueshirt Bandwidth Ep. 89 Watch & subscribe to the podcast on YouTube Subscribe to Blueshirt Banter for $85/year to read and comment on all of our great content!
The Knicks are NBA champions, and Eric and Joe have a lot of feelings—mostly jealousy, some genuine excitement, and an extended meditation on what Leon Rose's success might mean for how the Rangers are run. Carolina hoisted the Cup on one of the easiest paths in recent memory, K'Andre Miller has a ring, and the boys explain (with receipts) why, no, you can't just throw anyone in net. Offseason watch: Gavrakov reportedly wants back to LA, Trocheck is now a Pat Brisson client and almost certainly gone, and Torts got fired in Vegas—which Eric called and Joe did not. Plus the Ombudsman Report, a debate about Adam Fox's trade value, and eight days until the draft. Give it a listen! Podcast Ombudsman Report for Blueshirt Bandwidth Ep. 88 Watch & subscribe to the podcast on YouTube Subscribe to Blueshirt Banter for $85/year to read and comment on all of our great content!
Episode 88 of Blueshirt Bandwidth is the Patrick Kane episode—Joe and Chip debate the show's naming convention (Lindros? Ken Hodge? No) before landing on prime Eric Lindros. Charlie's Ombudsman Report gets a full flogging. Then the main event: Dylan Larkin's trade request out of Detroit and what it means for the Vincent Trocheck market—Chip pitches a CBA fix for no-movement clauses, Joe pushes back hard, and the two map out where Larkin (and by extension Trocheck) could land, with Minnesota and Florida getting the most run. Plus: Peter Laviolette to the Kings, Mike Babcock somehow getting another NHL job (Connor McDavid's fault?), Gabe Perreault's looming extension, and a mailbag on AHL development, off-wing prospects, and trade-protection limits. Give it a listen! Podcast Ombudsman Report for Blueshirt Bandwidth Ep. 87 Watch & subscribe to the podcast on YouTube Subscribe to Blueshirt Banter for $85/year to read and comment on all of our great content!
Episode 87 of Blueshirt Bandwidth is named after the only Ranger to wear #87—Donald Brashear—which leads to a very important debate about how old he'd have to be before either host would feel comfortable fighting him. Charlie Vidal's Ombudsman Report delivers a thorough flogging: forgetting Sean Avery on the Rangers personality Mount Rushmore is declared inexcusable and Joe and Eric agree. Then: the NHL Draft, where San Jose taking a defenseman at two could set off a chain reaction, Vancouver likely locks up Caleb Malhotra at three with Manny now coaching the team, and Joe makes the case for Viggo Björck while Eric remains skeptical the Rangers reach for him at five. Peter Laviolette being connected to Toronto is baffling, Patrick Roy isn't much better, and Tortorella is almost certainly staying in Vegas no matter what happens. The K'Andre Miller and Brett Howden "glazing" gets a full reality check. Give it a listen! Watch & subscribe to the podcast on YouTube Subscribe to Blueshirt Banter for $85/year to read and comment on all of our great content!
Episode 86 of Blueshirt Bandwidth has Eric back after a week away, and the boys have plenty to chew on. The Mount Rushmore of Rangers personalities kicks things off , and the Ombudsman Report dings Joe for calling Colorado "a wagon that's going to steamroll the East" as they're on the verge of being swept by Vegas (when this is recorded). Then the real stuff: John Tortorella is now in the Stanley Cup Final as an interim head coach after getting fined $100,000 and costing Vegas a second-round pick for skipping a mandatory press conference, and Joe and Eric cannot find a single note. Brett Howden is on a playoff tear but it's a black swan event, and the revisionist Rangers history needs to stop. MSG Holdings is separating the Rangers and Knicks into distinct entities. Will Dolan even still own the Rangers in five years? The Knicks are running the best 11-game stretch in NBA history, the order of New York's #11s gets settled (Brunson, Messier, Simms), as well as which coach's seat is hottest going into next year. Joe also makes a solemn vow: if the Rangers get Stenberg, he's buying the jersey before the kid plays a single game. Give it a listen! Watch & subscribe to the podcast on YouTube Subscribe to Blueshirt Banter for $85/year to read and comment on all of our great content!
Episode 85 of Blueshirt Bandwidth has no Ranger to its name—nobody ever wore the number—so Joe and Chip lean on the $85-a-year ad-free tie-in, Mike Richter going 28th in the 1985 draft, and a whole lot of roasting Eric for the way he says "Wolf Pack." Charlie Vidal's Ombudsman Report cleans up the draft order (the Rangers land 26th, not 27th, after Buffalo's Game 7 overtime collapse in Montreal) and dings Eric for sending Cam Talbot to the wrong college. Then the real stuff: Minnesota is eating itself alive over Kirill Kaprizov's contract and an unsigned Quinn Hughes, and the guys think Bill Guerin should finally pay up for Vincent Trocheck, with Danila Yurov as the prize and Florida, Detroit, and even New Jersey lurking as suitors. They make the case again for trading up to second overall for Stenberg with Braden Schneider as the centerpiece, dig into why the Rangers swear Schneider is untouchable but have never once treated him that way, lay out Carson Carles as the fallback at five, and watch Caleb Malhotra slide to Vancouver. Plus Connor McDavid being mad at the wrong guy, Vegas refusing to let anyone interview Bruce Cassidy, and a question-thread romp that crowns J.T. Miller the last Ranger you'd want on a deserted island and Matt Rempe the first. Give it a listen! Podcast Ombudsman Report for Blueshirt Bandwidth Ep. 84 Watch & subscribe to the podcast on YouTube Subscribe to Blueshirt Banter for $85/year to read and comment on all of our great content!
Note: We had connection issues when recording this episode, so if some transitions seem kind of rocky, that's why. Episode 84 of Blueshirt Bandwidth is the Adam Edstrom episode, and Eric and Joe fight Riverside through multiple connection meltdowns to get into the long version of the fifth-overall conversation. They think the Rangers should be on the phone with Mike Grier about trading up for the second overall pick and Ivar Stenberg, with Braden Schneider as the centerpiece. Caleb Malhotra is almost certainly gone by five, Carson Carels is the consensus fallback, Eric does not want to endure another Keaton Verhoeff-can't-skate cycle, and Viggo Björck would be a reach at five no matter how much Snark and Roberto like him. Benoit Allaire is retiring and goes straight to Valhalla, Bill Guerin should have traded for Vincent Trocheck and now the Wild are a game from elimination, the Sidney Crosby lottery absolutely was rigged but most of the others are not, and Chip's trade proposal—the second overall pick, the 20th, Michael Misa, and a secondary prospect for Adam Fox—is one both guys would actually do. Give it a listen! Podcast Ombudsman Report for Blueshirt Bandwidth Ep. 83 Watch & subscribe to the podcast on YouTube Subscribe to Blueshirt Banter for $85/year to read and comment on all of our great content!
Episode 83 of Blueshirt Bandwidth is the first-ever live stream, and Eric and Joe spend the first 25 minutes watching the Rangers fall to fifth overall in the NHL draft lottery in real time—the mathematically worst-case scenario—while Toronto somehow wins the right to draft Gavin McKenna. Joe's heart rate hits 140 beats a minute, the lottery may or may not have been rigged, and the long argument about whether Caleb Malhotra makes it to fifth begins immediately. Hartford Wolf Pack correspondent Keegan Jarvis joins to walk through a 32nd-place season, the firing of Grant Potulny's and his entire coaching staff, the Scott Morrow situation, why Brett Berard's stock cratered, why Adam Sokora and Jaroslav Chmelar look like real NHL players, and why Dylan Garand is ready to back up Igor Shesterkin next year. Then it's the Tanner Glass promotion (Eric and Joe agree it's not about Tanner Glass the player), the Toronto presser disaster with Steve Simmons and new GM John Chayka, a Mount Rushmore of New York sports broadcasters that somehow includes Doc Emrick, and whether John Cooper should actually be on the hot seat in Tampa. Give it a listen! Podcast Ombudsman Report for Blueshirt Bandwidth Ep. 82 Watch & subscribe to the podcast on YouTube Subscribe to Blueshirt Banter for $85/year to read and comment on all of our great content!
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