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Henrik Lundqvist News & Rumors

Lundqvist needs to channel Mike's '94 effort
May 25
New York Post
 columnist Larry Brooks
"So I am reading my contemporaneous notes from 18 years ago tonight because, as Rangers' coach John Tortorella once told me out of a sense of exasperation not to be mistaken for admiration, "everything stays in that pad of yours." And as I peruse shorthand that probably only I can read from the second period of the most famous Game 6 ever played indoors around these parts, I am struck by a series of blue asterisks, blue exclamation points and red arrows, one after another, almost filling a page, and all refreshing memories."
This time, King a mere commoner
May 24
New York Post
 columnist Steve Serby
"In the beginning, and then again at the end, with Game 5 and very possibly the season on the line, the Devils brazenly and unceremoniously removed The King's crown and stabbed the Rangers' Stanley Cup dream with their pitchfork, turning the Garden into a hushed hell on ice. This was a night for once when the Rangers were asked to save Henrik Lundqvist instead of the other way around — and ultimately could not. A night when they managed to summon every ounce of their heart and will and beyond, and it still wasn't enough. A night when more than a few of them fought to remember what it was like when they were young phenoms on the pond and no goalie alive could stop them."
Offense or not, Lundqvist only worries about his play
May 22
NHL.com
 
"Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist is not about to go crazy because of his teammates' inability to stake him to an early lead. You won't find him screaming or throwing things in the dressing room. That's not his style, or what he's about. "Honestly, it's not a concern for me at all how many goals we score," Lundqvist said after a brisk practice Tuesday at Madison Square Garden. "I just try to focus on my game." His game has been good enough to get the Rangers within two wins of the Stanley Cup Final and six wins from their first championship in 18 years. However, by now Lundqvist also knows he will have to be as close to perfect as he can be in order for the Rangers to bring the Stanley Cup"
Lundqvist invaluable to exhausted Rangers
May 20
New York Post
 columnist Larry Brooks
"The Rangers are like a heavyweight in the middle rounds of a grueling title bout, conserving energy, throwing metaphorical punches in short bursts, no longer on their toes, but comfortable in the clinches and on the ropes while dug in for the long haul. They play in spurts now, these Black-and-Blueshirts, and if anyone suggests — let alone insists — this is not the byproduct of the club having been forced to grind through a pair of seven-game series to open this tournament following an 82-game season in which maximum effort was demanded and expended on essentially every shift, then that person is spinning a tale. But here's the crux of the matter: The Rangers are surviving this way, are up"
Lundqvist wins Brodeur showdown
May 15
New York Post
 columnist Steve Serby
"In one corner of the Garden rink last night stood the old man who has stoned Father Time's incessant breakaways, who has kept the notion that 40-year-old goaltenders are over the hill out of his net, who was looking to glove his fourth Stanley Cup and maybe, just maybe, skate off into the sunset as arguably the greatest of all time: Martin Brodeur. But at the opposite end of the Garden rink stood the man they call The King, who was looking to glove his first Stanley Cup at the end of a season in which he stood on his head in an effort to win the Vezina Trophy, the stylish, 30-year-old heart throb serenaded with chants of "MVP" and "Hen-rik" from an apoplectic Garden that was imploring him,"
King Lundqvist tips his hat to Brodeur
May 15
New York Post
 
"It's the adaptation of styles that has made Devils' 40-year-old goalie Martin Brodeur age so well — and also has made his opposing netminder last night, the Rangers' Henrik Lundqvist, admire him so much. "I think Marty's ability to adapt and be open-minded about the game is a large part of the reason he's stayed in the league for so long and at such a high level," Lundqvist told The Post before the Rangers' 3-0 win last night in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals at the Garden. "The game changes, I think it's changed a lot from my first year in the league [2005-06], so I can only imagine how many changes there have been since Marty has been playing [since 1993-94].""
Brodeur talks about Lundqvist ahead of Game 1
May 14
NHL.com
 
"New Jersey Devils goalie Martin Brodeur says he always enjoys the playoff battles against the New York Rangers. On Monday, he'll step between the pipes in his fifth playoff series against the Broadway Blueshirts. It will also mark his third matchup against Henrik Lundqvist, who'll be manning the cage at the other end in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals at Madison Square Garden. Brodeur spoke to the media following New Jersey's practice Sunday about the rivalry and facing Lundqvist. Brodeur has a 1-3 series record against the Rangers in the playoffs. "I think it's a big rivalry," Brodeur said. "They're the best team in the Eastern Conference and they proved it all year. They got"
The King holds court in crucial 2nd period
May 13
New York Post
 
"As the delirium multiplied around him, as the big old rink prepared for a massive exhale, Henrik Lunqvist made certain not to celebrate even one-tenth of a second early. The Rangers bench was already prepared to bolt onto the ice, the Capitals already bore the look of almost-but-not-quite. Lundqvist? He kept his eye lasered on the puck while keeping an ear out for the final horn. And when it finally blasted, when it groaned and officially nudged the Rangers up a rung in this NHL Tournament, into the conference finals for the first time since the first year of the second Clinton Administration, then Lundqvist was something to see. He pumped his arms and raised his stick, looking the way"
Malkin, Stamkos, Lundqvist named Lindsay finalists
May 2
NHL.com
 
"Pittsburgh Penguins center Evgeni Malkin, Tampa Bay Lightning center Steven Stamkos and New York Rangers goaltender Henrik Lundqvist have been named as nominees for this year's Ted Lindsay Award. Formerly known as the Lester B. Person Award, the trophy is given annually to the NHL's "most outstanding player," with members of the National Hockey League Players' Association voting for the winner. Daniel Sedin of the Vancouver Canucks won the award last year. Last week, Lundqvist, Malkin, and Stamkos were all named finalists for the Hart Trophy, which is awarded annually "to the player adjudged to be the most valuable to his team." Stamkos and Malkin are already guaranteed to see the podium"
As usual, Lundqvist makes key stops for Blueshirts
April 29
New York Post
 
"You can play the way the Rangers play, with much more will than Gretzky-esque skill, with patience as a virtue, when you have Henrik Lundqvist standing defiantly in front of your net, and the other guys do not. It is no easy thing when you carry the hopes and dreams of New York City on your shoulders with expectations higher than the Stanley Cup that was hoisted over Mark Messier's head that magical 1994 night when "1940" became a distant memory. Henrik Lundqvist does not buckle under the weight. He is the singular reason why these young Rangers believe, why New York believes there can be another Miracle on 33rd Street. This is a pugnacious, tenacious team that takes on the personality of"
Lundqvist, Malkin, Stamkos finalists for Hart Trophy
April 28
New York Post
 
"In the midst of the NHL awards season, there are few stars brighter right now than Rangers goalie Henrik Lunqvist. After being nominated as one of three finalists for the Vezina Trophy as the league's top goaltender on Wednesday, Lundqvist got an even greater nomination Friday, becoming one of the three finalists for the Hart Trophy, given to the league's most valuable player. "It's amazing," Lundqvist said. "I'm not used to getting awards." Lundqvist joined the Penguins' Evgeni Malkin and the Lightning's Steven Stamkos as the finalists. The award is voted on by the Professional Hockey Writers Association and will be given out at the NHL Award extravaganza on June 20 in Las Vegas. "This"
Lundqvist, Malkin and Stamkos are Hart finalists
April 27
NHL.com
 
"Defining what makes a player valuable to his team isn't easy. Is it wins and losses? Goals scored? How would the team do if this player suddenly disappeared from the roster? That's the annual conundrum facing the members of the Professional Hockey Writers' Association who vote on the Hart Trophy, awarded annually "to the player adjudged to be the most valuable to his team." This year, the writers chose New York Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist, Pittsburgh Penguins center Evgeni Malkin and Tampa Bay Lightning center Steven Stamkos as the finalists for the award. The winner will be announced at the 2012 NHL Awards Show, June 20 at the Encore Theater at Wynn Las Vegas. Lundqvist had the best"
Lundqvist, Quick, Rinne are finalists
April 27
ESPN.com
 
"New York Rangers goaltender Henrik Lundqvist has been named one of three finalists for this year's Vezina Trophy, awarded to the best goaltender as voted by the NHL's 30 general managers. Lundqvist is joined by Los Angeles' Jonathan Quick and Nashville's Pekka Rinne as candidates for the trophy, which will be announced at the NHL Awards Show in Las Vegas in June. Leading the Rangers to an Eastern Conference title, Lundqvist recorded career-highs with 39 wins, a 1.97 goals-against average and .930 save percentage. The 30-year-old Swede also finished the regular season with eight shutouts. "I'm really proud and honored to be with those names," Lundqvist said. "It's been a year where there"
Lundqvist finalist for Vezina Trophy
April 26
New York Post
 
"When Henrik Lundqvist leads the Rangers onto the ice at the Garden for tonight's first-round Game 7 against the Senators, he will do so as a Vezina Trophy finalist for the fourth time in his seven-year NHL career. Lundqvist, previously a finalist from 2006 through 2008 in each of his first three seasons in the NHL, joins the Kings' Jonathan Quick and the Predators' Pekka Rinne as competitors for the award for best goaltender as voted by the league's 30 general managers. The Vezina winner will be announced at the NHL Awards extravaganza in Las Vegas on June 20. "I take a lot of pride in being a finalist," said Lundqvist, who recorded 1.97 goals-against with a .930 save-pct. and eight"
Lundqvist, Rinne, Quick tabbed Vezina finalists
April 25
NHL.com
 
"Teams don't have success without high-quality goaltending, so it's no surprise the New York Rangers, Los Angeles Kings and Nashville Predators have done so well this season. The Rangers' Henrik Lundqvist, the Kings' Jonathan Quick and the Predators' Pekka Rinne have been named finalists for this year's Vezina Trophy, awarded "to the goalkeeper adjudged to be the best at his position" as voted by the general managers of each of the 30 clubs. The winner will be announced at the 2012 NHL Awards Show, June 20 at the Encore Theater at Wynn Las Vegas."
Rangers goalie Lundqvist: NHL missed 'obvious' kick-in
April 24
New York Post
 
"Henrik Lundqvist takes every puck that gets by him seriously, so when Chris Neil managed to kick one by him with 40 seconds left in last night's 3-2 Game 6 win over the Senators, Lundqvist was furious. "Oh my God, it scares me," Lundqvist said after making 25 saves as the Rangers tied the opening-round playoff series 3-3. "When it's such an obvious play, goalie interference and a kick, and they still call it a goal, it scares me that someone can call that. It's just unbelievable. It still upsets me. "We have this game and they get a chance," Lundqvist said. "Someone wants them back in the game, obviously, because there's no other explanation." Lundqvist's remarks were somewhat similar to"
Lundqvist earns 39-save shutout in 1-0 win over Sens
April 17
Ottawa Sun
 
"Three times they chanted Daniel Alfredsson's name Monday night at Scotiabank Place. Twice, they could have used him. While there was hope the Senators captain would be able to return from the concussion he suffered in Game 2, it was Henrik Lundqvist and series villain Brian Boyle who gave Ottawa players a huge headache in Game 2. Lundqvist made 39 stops for the shutout and Boyle scored the third-period winner for the Rangers, as the Senators fell behind 2-1 in the first-round series with a 1-0 loss in front of a raucous crowd of 20,123."
Lundqvist deserves Vezina
April 16
Buffalo News
 columnist Bucky Gleason
"The Vezina Trophy has been awarded since 1927, but for the first 55 years it was given to the goaltender with the lowest goals-against average. The Jennings Trophy was added 30 years ago for the lowest GAA, leaving general managers to determine the Vezina as the NHL's best goalie regardless of statistics. Only 10 times in the Last 30 years has a goalie won the Vezina and the Jennings in the same year. Blues goalies Jaroslav Halak and Brian Elliott will share the Jennings after allowing just 1.89 goals per game this season. Picking one over the other for the Vezina is difficult enough, but selecting a third goalie over both is tougher. Good luck. Votes could come down to games played. Halak"
Callahan, Lundqvist lead Rangers to Game 1 win
April 13
New York Post
 
"For a significant stretch through the first 30 minutes of last night's first-round playoff opener at Madison Square Garden, the only way to truly identify the top seed was by the color of the uniforms denoting home and away. But, critically, Henrik Lundqvist was wearing the Blueshirt, and when the King refused to be beaten even as his team spent shifts at a time in the defensive zone through the midway point of the second while trying to protect a one-goal lead, the Rangers grabbed onto his cape and steadied themselves to record a 4-2 victory over the Senators for the jump in the best-of-seven that continues on Broadway tomorrow night."
Sens must solve Lundqvist
April 12
Ottawa Sun
 
"The Senators are going to have to dethrone The King if they are to pull off an upset in Round 1. Henrik "The King" Lundqvist isn't just a good goalie. He is regarded as one of the NHL's best. He had a strong enough season to be a favourite for the Vezina Trophy and he'll get votes for the Hart Trophy as the league's MVP. Lundqvist is the biggest roadblock standing in the way of the Senators and a first-round upset of the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference. If he plays the way he did en route to earning 39 wins this season, Ottawa could be in big trouble. If the Rangers are targeting high-scoring Ottawa blueliner Erik Karlsson, then coach Paul MacLean should post a picture of Lundqvist in"
Lundqvist ready for playoff run
April 11
New York Post
 columnist Larry Brooks
"Before he became a Ranger, Brad Richards knew Henrik Lundqvist socially through their mutual friendship with Sean Avery, but the Conn Smythe Trophy winner for the 2004 Stanley Cup champion Lightning didn't know Lundqvist at all as a goaltender or a competitor. "I'd hung out with Hank a few times in New York and then with him and [former Dallas teammate] Loui Eriksson at last year's All-Star Game, and those were fun times, but I had no idea how intense he is," Richards told The Post yesterday. "Early this year I made the mistake of trying to make conversation with him when he came into the locker room at 9:30 on a game day, and I learned pretty quickly not to do it again."
Flyers still can't crack Rangers' Lundqvist
April 5
CSN Philly
 columnist Tim Panaccio
"It has been a very long time since we've seen a goaltender dominate the Flyers the way Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist dominated Peter Laviolette's team this season. In sweeping all six games for the Broadway Blueshirts, Lundqvist had a 1.83 goals against average and .942 save percentage. If the Flyers are fortunate to get past the Pittsburgh Penguins – assuming they solidify the fifth seed – Laviolette better hope somebody upsets the Rangers because they've owned the orange and black this season."
Lundqvist leads Rangers to shootout victory
March 25
New York Post
 
"This is no longer about finding time to get Henrik Lundqvist rest. This, rather, is about creating the opportunity for the Rangers' franchise goaltender to get back on top of his game. "The last few weeks have been OK, I don't think I've been giving up bad goals, but I need to come up with more big saves to give us the chance to win," The King said after recording 22 saves in a 4-3 shootout victory over the Maple Leafs in going back-to-back for just the fourth time this season and first time since Feb. 11-12. "I'm trying to push myself to be a little bit sharper where I can be the difference in games, because the difference really is so small.""
Biron to start for flu-stricken Lundqvist
March 13
NHL.com
 
"Henrik Lundqvist was scheduled to make his 52nd start of the season for the Rangers on Tuesday night, but the flu will keep him out of the lineup against the Carolina Hurricanes. Lundqvist did not take part in the team's optional practice Tuesday morning, usually a sure sign that he would be that night's starting goaltender. Instead, it will be backup Martin Biron making his 18th start of the season. To replace Lundqvist, the Rangers recalled Chad Johnson from the Connecticut Whale of the AHL."
Lundqvist outduels Brodeur as Rangers beat Devils, 2-0
February 28
New York Post
 
"Now it's hockey season. The side issues — the Rick Nash quest, the trade deadline — all settled. Now all they do is play for keeps. That's how the Rangers played last night, no more gnashing of teeth about Nash, all set for the final run. "It's crunch time," Brian Boyle said after the Rangers' 2-0 victory over the Devils last night at the Garden. "It's a good feeling knowing everybody's still here, nobody had to leave." Then he said what a first-place Rangers team always believes. "This is the place to be," Boyle said. The Rangers victory was about as heavy a trouncing as an empty-net, 2-0 verdict gets. It was a direct answer to the Devils' 1-0 triumph at the Garden three weeks ago."
Brodeur ties Lundqvist's shootout mark in Devils' win
February 18
New York Post
 
"Here's another NHL record Martin Brodeur owns a piece of, this one by pulling even with The King. Brodeur won his 40th career shootout last night, tying Henrik Lundqvist of the Rangers for most in league history, in the Devils' 3-2 triumph over the Ducks at Prudential Center. The NHL's record-holder with 1,170 games, 645 victories and 117 shutouts stands 40-20 in the game-deciders, compared to Lundqvist's 40-27 mark. "The best over-35-year-old in the league," Ilya Kovalchuk proclaimed. "Marty was the best player on the ice tonight." Devils coach Pete DeBoer, who has played Brodeur back into star form with starts in 10 of 12 games, echoed Kovalchuk. "I don't know who was second-best. Marty"
Blueshirts' two keepers tend to one goal: winning
February 17
New York Post
 
"The people closest to great players are the ones who like to look past the physical talents and deeper into what constitutes that greatness. So as Martin Biron sat in his stall yesterday morning at the Rangers practice facility in Westchester, the backup goalie waxed poetic about the man in front of him on the depth chart, Henrik Lundqvist. "I always say the most impressive thing is not what he does physically, but his focus and readiness," said Biron, who was set to make his 15th start of the season last night against the Blackhawks at the Garden. "His preparation and his ability to focus are just amazing.""
Richards: Goalie the globe's best
February 16
New York Post
 
"Henrik Lundqvist is a three-time finalist for the Vezina Trophy as the NHL's top goalie. There were no questions or prodding necessary coming into this season to determine whether he was elite. As Lundqvist's spectacular seventh season for the Rangers continues — his latest gem an NHL-leading seventh shutout with 42 saves in Tuesday's 3-0 win at Boston — teammate Brad Richards has come to a conclusion. "He's the best goalie in the world right now in my opinion," Richards said after yesterday's practice. "We feed off Hank. Some of the big saves he makes, some of the saves, just night in and night out, we're probably getting a little spoiled.""
Lundqvist blanks Bruins in Rangers win
February 15
New York Post
 
"The mathematics of it didn't make much sense. The Rangers were not only outshot last night by the Bruins 18-3 in the third period, 32-8 over the final 40 minutes and 42-20 overall, the Blueshirts were out-attempted 34-5 in the third, 63-14 over the final two periods and 79-31 overall and yet, the final score was 3-0, Rangers. But then, mathematics didn't quite explain the brilliance of Henrik Lundqvist, who recorded his fifth shutout in his last 19 starts, a stretch during which The King has surrendered no more than one goal 10 times and two or fewer in 16."
Serby's Sunday Q & A with... Henrik Lundqvist
February 12
New York Post
 
"Q: What special quality do you think this year's team has that maybe others haven't had? A: We've been a hard-working team, but what I feel this year is we're a little bit more consistent. We're a little bit more mature group, that can handle ups and downs maybe a little bit better. Q: If teams take on the personality of their coach, what would the personality of this team be? A: We try to leave everything out there. ... We're talking about Torts (John Tortorella), he leaves everything out there. He's very determined ... passionate. And I think being a passionate team, that's something that goes a long way, to have that fire, and you want to give everything out there. Q: Is this the most"
Lundqvist rules rival
February 5
New York Post
 
"The first day of Henrik Lundqvist's NHL career was Oct. 5, 2005, when the as yet uncrowned goaltender acted as backup to Kevin Weekes for the Rangers' opener in Philadelphia, which signified the return of the NHL following the 2004-05 canceled season. "It was surreal to be part of an NHL game after working toward it for such a long time," Lundqvist told The Post yesterday. "But what I do remember most about that day is that when I went down to the room in the hotel for the team breakfast, I wasn't wearing a suit because I didn't know the rules. "I saw Glen and Tom [GM Glen Sather and coach Tom Renney], and they told me to go back up to my room to change. So my first day in the NHL I broke"
King-sized gamble fails
February 1
New York Post
 columnist Larry Brooks
"The most singular weapon the Blueshirts have had over the last seven seasons while inexorably tilting the Battle of the Hudson toward the shores of Manhattan remained on the bench last night in Newark. Henrik Lundqvist, the answer to the question, "Who Was That Masked Man?" as the Lone Ranger to start in goal against the Devils the last 32 times the clubs had met — 37 including the 2008 playoffs — dating back to Dec. 17, 2006, was only a bystander in his team's excruciating 4-3 shootout defeat that first got away on a bizarre bounce with under a minute to go in regulation before Ilya Kovalchuk drove home the only goal in the skills competition."
'Sniper' and MVP Gaborik ruffles Lundqvist in NHL All-Star Game
January 30
New York Post
 
"Even if Henrik Lundqvist were only feigning annoyance with fellow Ranger Marian Gaborik's sniper celebration, it stung. "We'll have to talk about what kind of penalty [Gaborik pays]. Twenty-five hundred, right?" Lundqvist said after Gaborik was named the NHL All-Star Game MVP in last night's 12-9 Team [Zdeno] Chara victory over the local Daniel Alfredsson side. "We have to talk about this on the plane. It will be interesting how much he has to pay," said Lundqvist, who gave up the first two goals of Gaborik's hat trick said. "It's been building between us. He won this one. "But I'm not happy for him. I can't believe he scored two goals. He had a great game.""
Rangers' Lundqvist shut out Jets 3-0
January 25
Winnipeg Free Press
 
"Somewhere in their travels to the four corners of the globe during the NHL's all-star break, maybe the Winnipeg Jets will find a duty-free goals store or possibly a website that deals in softer hands or foolproof offensive finish. Those items were conspicuous by their absence this week when the Jets made a brief, two-game pit stop in the east. One goal for two nights added up to a pair of losses, the latest a 3-0 blanking from the New York Rangers in Madison Square Garden on Tuesday night. It was Winnipeg's third loss in a row, and third in three tries this season against the Eastern Conference-leading Rangers. It duplicated the result here on Nov. 6."
Lundqvist 'a little better' in Rangers' shutout
January 18
New York Post
 
"Sunday night, after the 4-1 defeat in Montreal in which he had allowed as many as four goals for the first time in 25 starts since the end of October, Henrik Lundqvist told The Post he was disappointed in himself. Forty-eight hours later, following the 3-0 Garden victory over the Predators that represented his fourth shutout of the year, The King said he was somewhat more pleased with his game, even if not entirely so. "I didn't feel great, but I was battling," Lundqvist told The Post after his 27-save performance that marked his 39th career shuout, third in franchise history behind Ed Giacomin (49) and Davey Kerr (40). "I just needed to be more aggressive."
Lundqvist's 37 Pitt stops lift Rangers
January 7
New York Post
 
"In the City of Steel, Henrik Lundqvist was the Man of Steal. Other Rangers emerged to play important roles in last night's 3-1 victory over the Penguins that stretched the Blueshirts' latest winning streak to four games in a season of all but seamless stretches of success, but they did so only after climbing aboard The King's sturdy shoulders. "Hanky just plays on his head pretty much every night," Dan Girardi said, and the defenseman who logged 28 minutes was not using a metaphor. But last night was special, even for Lundqvist. For though The King used his head — well, his mask — to make one third-period save against Richard Park, it was his glove hand that shined the brightest throughout"
Lundqvist zips Islanders for Rangers' 5th straight
December 27
New York Post
 
"It's safe once again for Henrik Lundqvist to go back to the Garden to watch the Knicks play. It wasn't always that way. After being pulled from nets on Feb. 3 of last season after allowing three goals on 12 shots in 35:04 of a 3-2 loss to the Devils a night after having been photographed with Justin Bieber on celebrity row watching the Knicks play the Mavericks, the King was strongly discouraged, if not specifically prohibited, by coach John Tortorella from returning to watch Carmelo Anthony and his teammates the rest of the way. But there Lundqvist was on Christmas Day, watching the Knicks beat the Celtics in the NBA season opener. "Well, we had won four in a row," a smiling Lundqvist"
Rangers, Lundqvist stymie Devils — again
December 21
New York Post
 
"All this time, yet the tide in the Battle of the Hudson still flows full flood toward Manhattan. Again, it was Henrik Lundqvist keeping the Rangers boat afloat, while Martin Brodeur's ship ultimately swamped. It was a night of maximum efforts, attacks that created chaos, shots that rang pipe, and a margin far smaller than the 4-1 final score of the Rangers' victory over the Devils last night at the Prudential Center. It was a duel, again, of two great goaltenders, one mistake making the difference. It was made by Brodeur, the winningest goalie in NHL history, just not lately, not against the Rangers. Now Lundqvist stands 21-5-5 in his last 31 games against Brodeur, and last night was"
Rangers' Lundqvist says skate issue is 'all taken care of'
October 24
New York Post
 
"Henrik Lundqvist practiced Sunday in Edmonton without any ill effects from the left foot pain he experienced because of a skate issue that forced him out of Saturday night's 2-0 defeat to the Oilers at 8:26 of the third period. "It's all taken care of," the Rangers goaltender said. "I'm on my second pair of skates this season, I changed them after we came back from Europe, and there was just a problem there that built up a little bit. "By the third period, I was thinking so much about my foot, my skate and the pain that I just couldn't focus on the puck, and if I'm not doing that I can't play my game, so that's why I came out.""
Lundqvist leaves Rangers loss; coach won't answer questions
October 23
New York Post
 
"A pathetic Rangers performance marked by a scare when Henrik Lundqvist was forced to leave the game midway through the third period with pain in his left foot because of skate problems was punctuated with a short and sour statement by coach John Tortorella. "This is going to be really quick," Tortorella said after his club's 2-0 loss to the Oilers. "I'm not taking any questions. "We [stunk] from head to toe and we need to move by it, so I'm not going to dissect it with you guys. I know you have to do your jobs, but I'm not going to answer any questions." The statement lasted 16 seconds, which is only slightly less time than the Rangers had possession of the puck as they were once again"
Lundqvist blanks Canucks, lifts Rangers
October 19
Vancouver Sun
 
"Exactly 30 years ago to the day, Alain Vigneault managed to do something his Vancouver Canucks could not on Tuesday night. He scored a goal against the New York Rangers. Of course, Vigneault's goal, one of only two he scored in a brief 42-game NHL career, came against a goalie named Steve Baker, not Henrik Lundqvist. King Henrik, as he is sometimes known in the Big Apple, stole a game for the Rangers on Tuesday night. Lundqvist turned aside all 40 shots the Canucks fired his way and was absolutely brilliant as the Rangers earned their first win of the season, a 4-0 decision over the Canucks at Rogers Arena."
Lundqvist all the player Rangers needed
October 19
Vancouver Province
 
"The final images of the Rick Rypien tribute video depicted the late, feisty forward waving his arms high in the air, imploring the crowd to get fired up one last time. They tried, when they weren't giving Roberto Luongo the Bronx cheer treatment. And so did the team. But it was virtually impossible for the game to live up to the emotionally charged tribute that preceded it. The game, a 4-0 New York Rangers win, felt hollow. Part of it was the Rypien effect, something that starkly put hockey in perspective."
Lundqvist carries Rangers to first victory of season
October 19
New York Post
 
"The dirty old chapeau atop Henrik Lundqvist's head was a crown fit for a King. Because on a night the Rangers were in desperate need of a victory after going the first three games and what seems like a million miles without one, it was the goaltender's exceptional performance while under siege that propelled his team to a 4-0 triumph over the Canucks last night and earned him the hat that will be awarded to the player-of-the-game after each win. "The hat sort of found its way back with us from Europe; just we're going to use it as a little reminder of how we came together over there," said Brad Richards, who came up with the concept and awarded the hat to the netminder. "It's another way"
Rangers prefer fresh Lundqvist
October 13
New York Post
 
"Henrik Lundqvist rarely gets a night off. But the Rangers' goalie will have to wait at least six days between starts. The Rangers, who last played Saturday in Sweden do not play again until this Saturday, when they travel to Long Island to face the Islanders. The seventh-year goalie has never been injured in his Rangers' career and has appeared in 70 or more games in four of the past five seasons. Last season, he started 67, after the Rangers finally signed a quality backup in Martin Biron. The thinking was Biron would be insurance in case Lundqvist got hurt, but also could help spell Lundqvist from time-to-time."
Lundqvist plans to set goals
September 20
New York Post
 
"After meeting and indeed surpassing last season's publicly stated personal objective of 10 shutouts with a career-high and NHL-leading 11 whitewashes, Henrik Lundqvist will establish his personal objectives for 2011-12 after talking it over with assistant coach and goaltending instructor Benoit Allaire. "I'll sit down with Benny before the season starts and do that," The King said yesterday after his second straight sharp scrimmage performance. "You want to have goals where you push yourself,but at the same time you want to have goals that you can achieve also. "Last year was fun trying to reach something, but you don't want to put too much pressure on yourself.""
Rangers' Henrik Lundqvist, Knicks' Carmelo Anthony both express sense of urgency to win now
April 26
New York Daily News
 columnist Filip Bondy
"It was Baggie Day in Dolan-ville Monday morning, as Knicks and Rangers alike coincidentally packed their things at the Greenburgh training center, met with officials and plotted their extended vacations. The Escalades and the Audis pulled into the parking lot. The players ambled inside - disappointed Knicks to the left, depressed Rangers to the right. The two teams couldn't be more different in concept. The Rangers are deep and relatively star-less, while the Knicks are a two-man show, thin as a vapor trail. And yet the frontmen for both sides expressed similar, impatient sentiments: Carmelo Anthony and Henrik Lundqvist both want title runs sooner than later, because time is ticking. "I"
Rangers' Henrik Lundqvist laments blown chances
April 24
Bergen Record
 
"As the final minute ticked off the scoreboard clock Saturday afternoon at Verizon Center, Rangers goaltender Henrik Lundqvist sat on the visitors' bench with his face covered by his glove. After the series-ending 3-1 Game 5 loss to the Washington Capitals was over, Lundqvist still couldn't shake the feeling that the Eastern Conference quarterfinal could have been a lot different for the Rangers. There weren't many scoring chances for the Blueshirts in the series - they scored only two goals in the three games at Verizon Center and eight goals in the series - and they were facing a deeper and more-skilled team, but they were in position to win Games 1 and 4 and couldn't finish off either"
Rangers will have to rely on Lundqvist in Game 2 of NHL playoffs against Capitals
April 15
New York Daily News
 
"It was not an astronomical total, the 33 shots on goal that Henrik Lundqvist faced in Game 1 of the Rangers' first-round series against the Capitals on Wednesday night, especially considering that the game featured 18:24 of overtime. What made Lundqvist's performance outstanding was the quality of the shots he faced, as he held firm time and again to give the Rangers a chance. Because he could not stop the last one, Alexander Semin's sizzling slapper to the roof of the net, the Rangers enter Friday night needing another stellar performance from their All-Star goaltender. He may even have to be better. "They are a tough team, no question," Lundqvist said of the top seed in the Eastern"
For Rangers' Henrik Lundqvist, almost perfect isn't enough
April 14
Washington Post
 
"There's a reason why the New York Rangers faithful deferentially refer to goalie Henrik Lundqvist as King. The three-time Vezina Trophy finalist so often has impacted games with clutch saves — many of the spectacular variety — over his six years that he's become virtual royalty on Broadway. For nearly 54 minutes on Wednesday night at Verizon Center, Lundqvist's dominion over the Washington Capitals was unshakable, and the Capitals appeared headed for another dispiriting loss because of a goaltender performing at his peak. Then left wing Alex Ovechkin poked in the tying goal through a cluster of bodies late in the third period, and when right wing Alexander Semin one-timed a slap shot past"