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| A NOT-SO-SUBTLE REMINDER OF THE COMPLETE INSIGNIFICANCE OF PROFESSIONAL SPORTS |
Alexei Cherepanov has passed away at the tender age of 19, today. |
| It is with heavy heart that, like all of you, we have just learned of the terrible news that Rangers prospect Alexei Cherepanov passed away as a result of a collision during a Kontinental Hockey League game earlier today. Cherepanov, playing for Omsk Avangard, collapsed on the bench in the latter stages of the third period and was rushed to a hospital but unfortunately could not be saved. Details are sketchy at this point but are, in large part, irrelevant. All that matters is that Cherepanov, still but a child at a mere 19 years of age, has left behind him a trail of broken hearts that extends from family members to friends, past and present, and to an endless number of coaches, teammates, opponents, teachers, classmates, co-workers, reporters, fans, and anyone else lucky enough to have gotten the chance to know Alexei in his far too brief time on this planet. Our thoughts and prayers are with all of these people on this day on which we will be certain to hug our loved ones just a little bit tighter.
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| NEW FACES HEADED EN MASSE TO NEW YORK - UPDATES TO THIS SITE? NOT SO MUCH |
Markus Naslund, Wade Redden, Nikolai Zherdev: these are their names, those are their faces.
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There's no point in pretending otherwise (not that we really have, actually); while Rob and I both love this site, we've come to the points in our lives where we simply cannot muster the time and effort to give it the proper updating it deserves. Rob's got a wife, infant daughter, and home to take care of, not to mention living five time zones away (in the wrong direction, to boot) from when the Rangers play 90% of their games while I occasionally play non-competitive co-ed softball and try to keep my Wii Fit from calling me a fatso every time I play it. Sigh. They are tough lives that we lead, indeed. I'm sure you understand.
As there is absolutely no chance we will be updating the Latest News sidebar of our site on a daily basis, we've decided to simply provide links to the fifteen most-likely visited sites for Rangers news on the web, all for your wonderful convenience. It's basically like all of your bookmarks' folders, but one extra, longer loading time click away.
Believe it or not, we are actually working on an update to the message board to provide easier registration and extra security for everyone out there, but when that will actually go online is about as a good a guess as when Brett Favre will actually retire. The final time. For real.
Until then, we can all look forward to our new new-look Rangers, featuring 90% less over-the-hill, dipsy-doodling Czech and slower-than-a-Brontosaurus, glass-shooting Canadian 'snipers' and 50% more 'Who's that?' questions about half of our forwards.
Should be fun!
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