Blueshirt Bandwidth

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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.

  1. 1 day ago

    #92: Briere Blows Up the Market, and Grier Gets Roasted Again

    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!

    1hr 52min
  2. 2 Jul

    #91: Trochek to Utah, Pettersson In as Drury Has a Very Good Week

    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!

    1hr 40min
  3. 27 Jun ·  Bonus

    LIVE: Rangers Trade for Pavel Dorofeyev, Draft Alberts Smits

    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!

    2h 45m
  4. 25 Jun

    #90: Panarin Trade Revisited, With Injected New Trade Insanity

    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!

    1hr 48min
  5. 28 May

    #86: How About Those Knicks, Eh?

    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!

    1hr 30min

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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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