Camp Tort

Ranger Coach John Tortorella was clearly still mad about the way the Rangers ended their season as he took charge of his first development camp today. Torts essentially punished the young prospects and ten non-Ranger invitees for the failures of Drury, Gomez, Redden and Co. First he put broke them up into groups for skates. Then had a 1:15 minute skate for all 26 players in attendance and in about 45 minutes he's making them all run 3 miles. Torts told the press that the Rangers were "soft" mentally, and it seems he is aiming to toughen them up, starting with the new kids. Structurally, Torts stayed above the ice with Shoeny and Madden, and Adam Graves, Ken Gernander and the rest of the `Pack coaches ran the drills. It should be a really interesting week, cause guys like Michael Del Zotto and Evgeny Grachev can start making their cases for making this year's team.

Of course, later this week NHL FA opens but with the Rangers as tight against the cap as they currently are it will be interesting to see what they can do, if anything, to create cap room and add scoring. Go Rangers!