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Lundqvist Out With Minor Injury

by Paul on 11/07/09 at 04:13 PM ET
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from Steve Zipay of Blue Notes,

Less than 24 hours after coach John Tortorella declared that Henrik Lundqvist would start the final game of this three-game trip, he reversed gears and said backup Steve Valiquette would be in the nets for his second consecutive game. “Vally is going. It’s just rest for Hank,” was all Tortorella would say, but the Rangers No. 1 goalie is fighting a nagging injury.

Lundqvist (8-5-1, 2.52 GAA) mentioned the other day that the ice pack on his “stiff” right upper thigh/groin was for something minor, and indeed, both goalies participated in the skate at the Saddledome and Valiquette left the ice first while Lundqvist chatted at center ice with Sean Avery and other players. In the dessing room, Lundqvist removed his equipment and disappeared for treatment for more than an hour. When he emerged he said that was pretty confident that he would play against Atlanta on Thursday, a nine-day layoff.

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Bad Goal Of The Night

by Paul on 10/09/09 at 09:48 AM ET
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Nicklas Backstrom from center ice scores on Henrik Lundqvist.

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Off The Ice

by Paul on 09/30/09 at 04:38 PM ET
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Don’t miss the newest episode of NHL Network’s ‘Off the Ice’ featuring Henrik Lundqvist, Niklas Backstrom, and Jonas Gustavsson.

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Goalies & Their Equipment

by Paul on 09/16/09 at 08:25 AM ET
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Henrik Lundqvist talks about his Bauer equipment.

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Lundqvist The Performer

by Paul on 07/10/09 at 12:08 PM ET
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Rangers forward Sean Avery opened a New York restaurant and bar earlier this summer, and goaltender Henrik Lundqvist was there to perform on the guitar.

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Lundqvist Must Be Better

by Paul on 01/08/09 at 07:58 AM ET
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from Larry Brooks of the NY Post,

...And, most damaging, the goaltending was sub par. Coming off one of his sharpest efforts of the season, Henrik Lundqvist was pedestrian in nets, if that. He was shaky from the start when he committed a stick-handling gaffe that gave the Canadiens a freebie just 3:05 in.

“I thought I battled back after that bad first goal but giving up five obviously is not good enough,” said Lundqvist, who watched Montreal’s final goal, Robert Lang’s hat-trick score, sail into an empty net. “I thought the team played really well, but we can’t expect to win if I give up five goals.

“I have to play better than that. I was definitely not good enough.”

Lundqvist has allowed four goals or more in six of his last 11 starts after having surrendered that many in two of his first 24. He has yielded five or more goals in five of his last 17 starts after allowing that many in four of his previous 61. It’s a troubling trend, to say the least.

more on the Rangers loss to the Canadiens last night…

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Morning Line

by Paul on 12/05/08 at 08:34 AM ET
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“It was like an NHL team against a non-NHL team, we have a long way to go before we are a top team.”

-Rangers goaltender Henrik Lundqvist after losing to Montreal last night. More on the Rangers from Larry Brooks of the NY Post.

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Lundqvist Had Enough

by Paul on 11/20/08 at 08:32 AM ET
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from The Good, The Bad And The Duthie,

Henrik Lunqvist pulled himself from the Rangers/Canucks game Wednesday after Vancouver scored it’s fifth goal, something he has done before. Lundqvist is one of the best goalies in the NHL, but what does that say to his teammates? “I quit guys, good luck.” Let your coach make the call. No game is over these days, even at 5-1. Claude Julien kept Manny Fernandez in after he gave up four first period goals against Buffalo, and the Bruins came back to win 7-4.

Lundqvist Your Early Season MVP

by Paul on 10/29/08 at 08:45 AM ET
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from Steve Zipay of Newsday,

The numbers are worthy of royalty: a league-leading seven wins, fourth in the NHL in goals-against-average, just .007 from third place in save percentage, and perfect in denying three shootout attempts.

He did all this while playing the most minutes of any goaltender in the league so far.

Crown Henrik Lundqvist the early season team MVP.

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All Henrik Lundqvist

by Paul on 09/13/08 at 07:51 AM ET
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from the New York Rangers,

Question: What does it mean for the Rangers to be playing NHL games on the European continent?

Lundqvist: I think it’s good for the game and for the league. We have a lot of fans in Europe. With the time difference in the U.S., sometimes it’s hard to follow it. But I mean now you can pretty much watch every NHL game. When I was growing up, you couldn’t watch the games that much. So, it’s definitely good.

Question: Will the games in Prague be emotional for you personally because you’ll playing in Europe?

Lundqvist: Well, maybe it would be if I played in my home in Sweden, especially in Gothenburg. Playing in Prague I think it’s going to be fun, but it’s not going to be the same feeling…

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Tough Season for Lundqvist

by Alanah McGinley on 04/22/08 at 01:14 PM ET
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From Lynn Zinser at the New York Times,

In late December, the Rangers were in a midseason swoon and Lundqvist, their normally rock-solid goalie, was dealing with his father’s operation for a brain aneurysm in Sweden. The stress showed in his play.

“It was definitely a tough time,” Lundqvist said Monday after the N.H.L. named him one of three Vezina finalists. “You don’t really think when it happens that it affects you, but afterwards, when he started to recover, I thought back about those weeks after it happened and it was a really tough time. I think it affected me a little bit.”

While his father, Peter, has gone through a slow recovery, Lundqvist has bounced back to form on the ice. He finished the season strong, with 37 victories and a league-high 10 shutouts.

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Vezina Finalists Announced

by Alanah McGinley on 04/21/08 at 12:06 PM ET
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From Dan Rosen at NHL.com,

In one corner is the mainstay, the ol’ reliable in New Jersey Devils’ dynamo Martin Brodeur. Last season, Brodeur captured his third Vezina Trophy in the last four seasons after setting an NHL record with 48 victories. This season he won 44 games.

In another corner, we have the element of surprise, the unlikely candidate in San Jose Sharks veteran Evgeni Nabokov. He has never been a Vezina finalist and had previously never played in more than 67 games in one season. Nabokov played in 77 this time around.

And finally, we have the rising star, the current and future “King” of New York in Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist. This is Lundqvist’s third-straight season as a Vezina finalist, meaning he’s been in the final three in each of his three NHL seasons.

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How Weird

by Paul on 03/27/08 at 08:58 AM ET
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from Larry Brooks of the NY Post,

Imagine Henrik Lundqvist’s surprise upon discovering that Martin Brodeur had been quoted in the Jan. 14, 2008, edition of Sports Illustrated as saying of the Rangers’ goaltender, “The way he plays is not something I like too much.

“Lundqvist is weird.”

“I have to tell you, I respect Marty a lot, and it’s always a great challenge for me to play against him, but I don’t know what to say about what he said about me,” a rather bemused Lundqvist told The Post yesterday.

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Rangers Hope Lundqvist Gets Hot

by Paul on 02/15/08 at 08:24 AM ET
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from the New York Times,

The Rangers hope giving him long-term security helps spur another hot stretch.

Lundqvist’s original contract expired after last season and he signed a one-year contract worth $4.25 million last summer so the Rangers could fit his long-term deal into their salary cap. The two sides could begin negotiating again after Jan. 1.

By then, Lundqvist had his father’s health weighing on his mind as well.

“Henrik is, in our minds, if not the best goaltender in the league, then one of the top two or three,” Coach Tom Renney said. “My feeling is, he’s been able to keep his eye on the ball anyway, with all the issues going on all around him.”

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Report-Lundqvist Agrees To Long-Term Deal

by Paul on 02/13/08 at 08:10 AM ET
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from the NY Daily News,

The Rangers have locked up their franchise goaltender for the foreseeable future.

Henrik Lundqvist and the Rangers have agreed upon a contract that will keep the 25-year-old netminder between the Garden’s pipes well past his 30th birthday.

While the length and value of the deal - believed to be for six years at more than $6.5 million per - have been set, there is language in the contract that is still being hashed out. So the Rangers are not expected to make a formal announcement until tomorrow at the earliest.

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The King Of The Rangers

by Paul on 02/02/08 at 02:52 PM ET
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Risto Pakarinen is a freelance writer living in Sweden and also blogs for NHL.com.

He just sent me this nice piece he did on Henrik Lundqvist titled, Superman Plays it Cool (will open pdf file). Risto wrote it back in November and is now making it available to his readers at his own blog, RPlog.

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Lundqvist Has To Be Better

by Paul on 01/11/08 at 08:09 AM ET
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from Larry Brooks of the NY Post,

Last night’s tying goal was scored at 8:45 of the second because of the netminder’s indecision playing a potential icing. The third goal - the winner -was scored on a shot from the left corner that originated from below the goal line.

“I can’t let in goals like these in a game like this; I have to better,” Lundqvist said. “I think as a team we’re fighting the game right now, and the same goes for me.

“I want to be the one to make the difference for our team, and I haven’t been. It’s very disappointing, but I’m not going to give up.”

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Pressure On Lundqvist

by Paul on 01/04/08 at 10:52 AM ET
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from Stan Fischler at Game On,

The onus is on Henny (Lundqvist). Period.

Oh-for-two on the Western swing, the Rangers require the king to once again be THE KING.

No ifs, ands or buts when the Blueshirts play the Oilers on Saturday night in Edmonton.

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Time To Sign Lundqvist

by Paul on 01/01/08 at 04:14 PM ET
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from the BlueShirts Blog,

Not only did 2007 turn to 2008 at midnight last night, but the NHL CBA mandated a change in how it views any contract extensions or new deals. During calendar ‘07, they would be averaged back into this season, potentially hiking a team’s payroll for cap purposes.

In other words, the Rangers now can sign Henrik Lundqvist to the long-term deal that was impossible last summer when they were planning their major dive into the free agent pool.

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The Value Of Lundqvist

by Paul on 12/16/07 at 08:43 AM ET
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from Larry Brooks of the NY Post,

At this point, Lundqvist, Washington winger Alex Ovechkin and Calgary defenseman Dion Phaneuf are the three select Group IIs yet unsigned to extensions. The Rangers cannot formally begin talks with Lundqvist until the calendar turns to 2008, and when it does, they will. And when they do, they will have no choice but to accede to their 25-year-old franchise goaltender’s demands. They won’t even be able to protect Lundqvist from receiving an offer sheet by filing against him for arbitration, because they did that last summer, even though they didn’t go through with the process.

What is Lundqvist, who can become an unrestricted free agent after next season, worth to the Rangers? He’s worth pretty much any dollar amount he and agent Don Meehan request.

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It Is A Team Thing

by Paul on 11/26/07 at 08:32 AM ET
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from Larry Brooks of the NY Post,

Funny, but when it was over no Rangers player stomped around the locker room complaining that his team lost 3-2 because it had been out-goaltended, although Lundqvist griped after Wednesday’s 2-1 victory in Tampa because he was unhappy with the players Tom Renney had on the ice when the Lightning scored at 19:43 of the third to spoil the shutout....

“I wasn’t questioning why any individual player was on the ice, but I had a conversation with Brendan about maybe having more defensive players on the ice,” Lundqvist told The Post yesterday. “I haven’t talked to Tom about it. I’m not going to.”

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