Tom Renney News

Edmonton's Ethan Moreau, left, scored the team's only goal in the 3-1 loss to the New York Islanders on Monday.

The Rangers are among the handful of NHL teams watching Peter Forsberg very closely when the 36-year-old free-agent center tests his chronically injured right foot in the Karjala Cup tournament that opens today in Sweden and will conclude over the weekend in Finland, The Post has learned.

That could become an issue here, where Oilers associate coach Tom Renney said yesterday that trainers believe that six of his dozen players who were sick recently had contracted the swine flu virus.

Tom Renney would have liked to chat with a number of his former players after either the Rangers' practice on Wednesday or yesterday's morning skate, but the one-time Blueshirts' coach, who was dismissed last winter following a four-season run in which he played a primary role in restoring pride in and credibility to the program, didn't think it ...

Edmonton Oilers center Gilbert Brule , left, checks New York Rangers defenseman Matt Gilroy into the boards during the first period.

Ales Kotalik had a goal and two assists, and the New York Rangers halted a four-game, road-losing streak with a 4-2 win over the Edmonton Oilers on Thursday night.

Dane Byers earns a $10,000 fine for his role in the New York Rangers-Vancouver Canucks brawl.

UNIONDALE, N.Y. a ' His current team faced the Islanders on Monday night but Oilers associate coach Tom Renney had no trouble thinking ahead to Thursdaya TMs game against his former squad.

Any Ranger who would use Marian Gaborik's absence the last two games as a crutch to explain the team's inferior performances in road defeats to the Islanders and Minnesota doesn't have a leg to stand on.

Ten games into the season including last night's match at the Garden against the Rangers, and not one time has the Coyotes' Petr Prucha been a healthy scratch.

Tom Renney still gets a kick out of coming here, even though he had an abbreviated stay as the Vancouver Canucks head coach 13 years ago when Pat Quinn hired him.

Hot on the heels of the report the New York Rangers offered Chris Chelios a spot on their AHL team , right around the time they offered Mathieu Dandenault an AHL tryout , there's only one logical conclusion to be drawn: the Rangers are trying to rebuild the Cup-winning 2001-02 Red Wings.

Mark Messier is in his first year in the Rangers front office, and by his view , he can't figure why the preseason prognosticators were so down on the Blueshirts.

Associate head coach Tom Renney. Photograph by: Brian Gavriloff, File, edmontonjournal.com GAME TIME JACKETS AT OILERS 7:30 p. m. Thursday 630 CHED, RSW Admittedly, Tom Renney is a rule-the-roost kind of guy.

With each passing game, Rangers rookie defenseman Michael Del Zotto proves to the club and the entire hockey world that he's the real thing.

The Tampa Bay Lightning, given an expensive and high-profile makeover after a dismal NHL 2007-08 season, received a negative review Saturday from one of the team's newcomers after a 2-1 opening-night loss to the New York Rangers.

If Wade Redden looks like a different player in his second season with the Rangers, and he does, much of the improvement can be credited to the fact that he is now playing in a system that maximizes his skills as a skater and puck mover while minimizing his deficiencies in defensive zone coverage and reading the rush.

Marian Gaborik #10 and Vinny Prospal #20 of the New York Rangers celebrate a goal against the Los Angeles Kings at Madison Square Garden on October 14, 2009 in New York, New York.

Rangers defenseman Marc Staal finally has been given the green light to make the red light glow.

Ther Rangers light up the Toronto Maple Leafs, 7-2, at Madison Square Garden. John Tortorella is reluctant to draw a connection between the grueling skates he put his team through in training camp and the strength they're now showing late in games.