NYRangers Pound 4 Pound: Brandon Prust!

In the second installment of my NYRangers Pound 4 Pound series, I will be looking at Brandon Prust.  Prust was acquired from the Flames right before the Olympic break last year along with Olli Jokinen for Chris Higgins and Ales Kotalik.  Needless to say most Rangers fans were glad to get rid of Higgins and Kotalik but to get a young energetic player in Prust who can also fight pretty well was definitely a bonus.

Prust was an RFA this summer and resigned with the Rangers for two years at 800k per.  Prust is still young at 26 and late in the season when paired with Anisimov and Shelley he put together some good offensive games.  He tallied 3 goals and 3 assists in 9 games with this line.  2 of those goals were game winners.  He was not involved in any fights over this 9 game stretch. 

Prust becomes a fan favorite where ever he plays because of his willingness to fight anyone of any size even though he is only 5'11.  He showed this in only his 3rd game with the Rangers when he took on New Jersey Devils 6'4 240 pound monster Andrew Peters not once but twice in the same game.  There  is no doubt in Rangers fans minds that Prust will come out the same way this season playing with his heart on his sleeve and leaving it all on the ice.

Tale Of The Tape:
Age: 26
Height: 5'11
Weight: 195 Pounds
Position: LW/RW
# of NHL Fights: 50 (3 seasons)
# of AHL Fights: 74 (3 seasons)
# of OHL Fights: 73 (3 seasons)
Total # of Fights: 197 (9 Seasons)

HockeyFights.com Awards: (5 Nominations, 0 Wins)

Click here for the 1st installment with Derek Boogaard!!

Join me after this for some of my favorite Brandon Prust fights....

Heritage Classic News!! Alot of PICS from Press Conference!!

The NHL today held a press conference for the Heritage Classic which is the Canadian version of the Winter Classic.  The game will be played on February 20th and will be played between the Montreal Canadiens and Calgary Flames.  The Canadiens played in the first Heritage Classic in 2003 against the Edmonton Oilers.  That year the Canadiens would go on to win the game. Obviously both teams have a lot of history so it seems like a great game will be played in Calgary 

The game will be played at McMahon Stadium which hold 40,000 plus seats which with no doubt will be filled up with crazy Canadian hockey fans of all teams.  The NHL has said they will most likely continue this as an every year tradition like the Winter Classic but will wait until after this years plays out to see how everything goes.

Join me after this for Pictures from today's press conference including logos and jerseys that will be worn during the game......