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Blueshirt Bandwidth
Blueshirt Bandwidth is a weekly podcast dedicated to the New York Rangers, brought to you by the team at Blueshirt Banter. Hosted by Joe Fortunato and Eric Kohn, the show offers in-depth analysis, game breakdowns, and the latest news on the Rangers. Whether you're looking for player insights, trade rumors, or post-game reactions, Blueshirt Bandwidth delivers everything a Rangers fan needs to stay updated. Tune in each week for commentary, passionate discussion, assorted nonsense, and all things…
Episodes
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#108: Bubble Team, Not Bad Team
Episode 108 of Blueshirt Bandwidth is the Kevin Klein Episode—a scrappy, overtime-goal-scoring No. 8 who was better than he gets credit for, just like these…
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Bonus Bandwidth: Hellebuyck Trade and a Yankees Autopsy
This Bonus Bandwidth was supposed to be a Yankees post-mortem, and it still is—but first, Eric and Chip react to Connor Hellebuyck finally getting traded to…
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#107: Garand Theft Hockey
Episode 107 of Blueshirt Bandwidth is the Rod Gilbert Episode—and yes, three other Rangers wore No. 7 before Mr. Ranger made it his. Joe and Eric dig into…
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#106: The Igor Aftermath
Episode 106 of Blueshirt Bandwidth is the Doug Lidster Episode—a nod to an unheralded No. 6 with a knack for big moments, which feels about right for this…
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#105: A Whole New Vibe for the Rangers
Episode 105 of Blueshirt Bandwidth is the Dan Girardi Episode—and with Eric out, Joe and Chip record during the Rangers' win over the Islanders, reacting live…
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#104: Another Opening-Night Shutout. Time to Panic?
Episode 104 of Blueshirt Bandwidth is the Braden Schneider Episode—fitting after JJ Peterka undressed him in Boston—and with Joe suddenly called away, Eric and…
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Bonus Bandwidth: Yankees vs. Red Sox Preview
It's not Blueshirt Bandwidth—it's Pinstripe Bandwidth, as Eric and Chip preview the playoffs and the Yankees' Wild Card Series against the Red Sox. They debate…
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#103: Is Alberts Smits Already an Opening-Night Lock?
Episode 103 of Blueshirt Bandwidth is the Tom Poti Episode—fitting for a show that, like Poti, could go either way—and Joe shares how a drunk fan at the Garden…
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#102: No Perreault Extension & Canadien Kreider
Episode 102 of Blueshirt Bandwidth is the Brian Leetch Episode—Joe and Eric run through the short list of significant Rangers who've worn No. 2 before diving…
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#101: Re-sign Gabe Perreault Now!
Episode 101 of Blueshirt Bandwidth is the Ed Giacomin Episode. Joe and Eric dive into Fraser Minten's new seven-year, $7.2 million deal with Boston and what it…
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#100: We Made It to 100 Episodes
It's the 100th episode of Blueshirt Bandwidth. They said we wouldn't get here. Who said that? We're not sure, but they definitely exist and they definitely…
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#99: Rangers Over/Under Picks for Every Player Who Matters
Episode 99 of Blueshirt Bandwidth is the Wayne Gretzky Episode, obviously—Eric is out, so Chip steps in and then unveils an over/under betting board on the…
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#98: Corey Pronman is Not a Serious Person
Episode 98 of Blueshirt Bandwidth is a nameless one—no Ranger has ever worn No. 98—but Joe and Eric still find plenty to dig into. They break down Scott…
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#97: The Case for Locking Up Gabe Perreault Right Now
Episode 97 is the Matt Gilroy Episode, and Joe and Eric revisit Gilroy's famously wooden commercial cameo before running through his actual Rangers résumé (142…
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#96: We're Talking About Braden Schneider Again
Episode 96 of Blueshirt Bandwidth is the Emerson Etem episode. Joe and Eric dig into whether Braden Schneider's one-year, arbitration-avoiding deal actually…
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Bonus Bandwidth: Are the Dodgers Bad for Baseball? Plus Yankees Trade Deadline Thoughts
It's an entirely un-New York Rangers related bonus podcast, as Eric and Chip spend some time after the MLB trade deadline pondering if the Los Angeles Dodgers…
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#95: Kirill, McCann, or Jail?
Episode 95 of Blueshirt Bandwidth is the Vinni Lettieri Episode. Joe and Eric break down Kirill Marchenko's availability out of Columbus and why the…
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#94: Is it Easier or Harder to Trade Braden Schneider Now?
Episode 94 of Blueshirt Bandwidth is the Gabe Perreault Episode, with apologies to Corey Pronman who won't accept the Perreault episode being any higher than…
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#93: The Braden Schneider Quandary
Episode 93 of Blueshirt Bandwidth is the Mika Zibanejad Episode—Joe and Chip, in his second straight week as guest host, break down James Dolan handing the…
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#92: Briere Blows Up the Market, and Grier Gets Roasted Again
Episode 92 of Blueshirt Bandwidth is the Michael Nylander Episode—Joe and Chip are joined by Timo Seppa, director of hockey analytics at Quinnipiac and an…
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#91: Trochek to Utah, Pettersson In as Drury Has a Very Good Week
Episode 91 of Blueshirt Bandwidth is the Marcus Naslund (or Sammy Blais?) Episode—Joe and Eric review a free agency day that turned into a full-blown second…
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LIVE: Rangers Trade for Pavel Dorofeyev, Draft Alberts Smits
Joe and Eric are LIVE for round one of the NHL draft. Within the first 20 minutes, Chris Drury drops a bomb, trading for 25-year-old Pavel Dorofayev—37 goals…
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#90: Panarin Trade Revisited, With Injected New Trade Insanity
Episode 90 of Blueshirt Bandwidth is the Vlad Nemestnikov Episode—Joe is on a private jet to a Caribbean island, so Eric and Chip are joined by Ryan Mead of…
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#89: The Offseason, in the Knick of Time
The Knicks are NBA champions, and Eric and Joe have a lot of feelings—mostly jealousy, some genuine excitement, and an extended meditation on what Leon Rose's…
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#88: Lark-en the Mood, Detroit
Episode 88 of Blueshirt Bandwidth is the Patrick Kane episode—Joe and Chip debate the show's naming convention (Lindros? Ken Hodge? No) before landing on prime…
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#87: You Don't Have to Envy Every Former Ranger
Episode 87 of Blueshirt Bandwidth is named after the only Ranger to wear #87—Donald Brashear—which leads to a very important debate about how old he'd have to…
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#86: How About Those Knicks, Eh?
Episode 86 of Blueshirt Bandwidth has Eric back after a week away, and the boys have plenty to chew on. The Mount Rushmore of Rangers personalities kicks…
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#85: Pay Up for Trocheck, Bill Guerin
Episode 85 of Blueshirt Bandwidth has no Ranger to its name—nobody ever wore the number—so Joe and Chip lean on the $85-a-year ad-free tie-in, Mike Richter…
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#84: Trade Up for Stenberg, Bid Farewell to Benoit Allaire
Note: We had connection issues when recording this episode, so if some transitions seem kind of rocky, that's why. Episode 84 of Blueshirt Bandwidth is the…
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#83: LIVE from Rangers Lottery Miseryville
Episode 83 of Blueshirt Bandwidth is the first-ever live stream, and Eric and Joe spend the first 25 minutes watching the Rangers fall to fifth overall in the…
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#82: Everything's Coming Up Rangers
Episode 82 of Blueshirt Bandwidth is the Martin Straka episode. A good player for a time when everything is coming up Rangers (question mark?). Charlie Vidal…
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#81: Breakup Day Fallout & The Case Against Tkachuk
Joe is back from his cruise and immediately gets roasted by the Podcast Ombudsman Report as Joe learns he has been mispronouncing the name of the show for 80…
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#80: Goodbye Quick & Are the Rangers One of the Worst Run Franchises?
Episode 80 of Blueshirt Bandwidth is the Kevin Weeks episode. Joe is on a cruise, so Chip fills in, and the two cover a lot of ground: Jonathan Quick's…
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#79: The Rangers Can't Stop Winning & It's Ruining Everything (Kinda)
Episode 79 of Blueshirt Bandwidth is the K'Andre Miller episode. Eric Kohn and Joe Fortunato check in on the Rangers' former defenseman (35 points in 69 games…
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#78 (w/ Scott Wheeler): Rangers Prospect Reality Check
Episode 78 of Blueshirt Bandwidth is a split-format show that blends present-day frustration with a forward-looking reality check. Joe and Chip open the…
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#77: Ten Shots and a Thousand Games
Episode 77 of Blueshirt Bandwidth starts Joe and Eric reacting to one of the most embarrassing performances of the season—a 10-shot effort in Mika Zibanejad’s…
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#76: The Tank is Back
Episode 76 of Blueshirt Bandwidth opens with a familiar refrain: the tank is back on. After a brief, confusing stretch of competent hockey, the Rangers crash…
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#75: Does Chris Drury Have a Plan?
Episode 75 of Blueshirt Bandwidth arrives just days after the trade deadline and the Emergency Bandwidth episode reacting to it, and Joe and Eric circle back…
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Emergency Bandwidth: The Trocheck Non-Trade Deadline
Emergency Bandwidth returns as Joe and Eric jump on the microphones just before the NHL trade deadline to react in real time to what might—or might not—happen…
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#74: Trocheck Leverage, Fox Fallout, and Deadline Games
Episode 74 of Blueshirt Bandwidth opens with Joe, Eric, and Chip unpacking how Team USA’s Olympic decisions—and Mike Sullivan’s comments afterward—continue to…
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#73: Golden Goals, Whiskey vs. Milk Drinkers, and Trocheck’s Value
Episode 73 of Blueshirt Bandwidth begins on a rare high note: the United States are Olympic gold medalists, and Joe and Eric savor every second of it. They…
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#72: What Rangers Losing Sounds Like
Episode 72 of Blueshirt Bandwidth opens with a truly unhinged hockey-adjacent debate about workplace affairs, Marty Brodeur lore, and why you should never “go…
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#71: Drury Doubts Grow, More on Panarin, Trocheck's Antics
Episode 71 of Blueshirt Bandwidth opens with Joe and Eric in unusually good spirits—thanks to an Olympic break and a Rangers schedule that has mercifully…
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#70: Farewell, Artemi Panarin
It's episode 70 of Blueshirt Bandwidth and Joe is out of the country, so Eric is joined by Chip to talk about the one big thing that just happened: Artemi…
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#69: Soucy, Selling, and Selective Outrage
Episode 69 of Blueshirt Bandwidth is a sprawling, snow-covered, post-Letter deep dive that somehow manages to cover emergency backup goalies, catastrophic…
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#68: Leverage, Trades, and Trust Issues After the Letter
Episode 68 of Blueshirt Bandwidth picks up a week after The Letter 2.0 with Joe and Eric digging into what actually comes next—and whether the Rangers can be…
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Emergency Bandwidth: The Letter 2: MSG Drift
This episode of Emergency Bandwidth drops in the immediate aftermath of what can only be described as the Letter 2.0. Joe and Eric react in real time to Chris…
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#67: Nobody Cares, Everybody’s Guilty, and the 10–2 Breaking Point
Episode 67 of Blueshirt Bandwidth finds Joe and Eric officially past the point of pretending individual games matter. After some housekeeping, news about the…
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#66: Fox, Dolan, and the Calm Before the Sell-Off
Episode 66 of Blueshirt Bandwidth opens with housekeeping, community updates, and a reminder that the podcast—like the Rangers—keeps finding new ways to get…
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#65: New Year, Same Old Goal-less Rangers
Episode 65 of Blueshirt Bandwidth starts with housekeeping, a Brett Berard tribute, and a deep dive into the show’s Spotify Wrapped—revealing some surprising…
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#64: Coal for Rangers Christmas
Joe and Eric are up before sunrise—literally—to record a pre-Christmas episode of Blueshirt Bandwidth, and the early hour matches the bleak mood surrounding…
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#63: The Murky Middle Is a Terrible Place to Live
With Joe sidelined on long-term injured reserve, Eric is joined by Chip for a wide-ranging (and occasionally unhinged) episode of Blueshirt Bandwidth. The two…
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#62: Rangers Pulse Check and Vegas Ref Show (Plus College Football Ravings)
In this episode of Blueshirt Bandwidth, Joe returns from Disney World and immediately hands Eric the microphone — and Eric delivers an 11-minute scorcher on…
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#61: The Fox Fallout and Schneider’s Window
In Episode 61 of Blueshirt Bandwidth, Eric steps in for an exiled-to-mystery-land Joe Fortunato and is joined by Chip for a deeply chaotic, surprisingly…
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#60: Stuck in Purgatory, Kids Rising, Vets Slipping, and Big Decisions Ahead
In the 60th edition of Blueshirt Bandwidth, Joe and Eric celebrate a Thanksgiving miracle with a full hour of chaos, kids-over-vets advocacy, goalie-number…
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#59: Remembering Larry Brooks and Searching for the Rangers’ Identity
In this week’s episode of Blueshirt Bandwidth, Joe and Eric record from dueling hotel rooms and open with an emotional tribute to the late Larry Brooks—a true…
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#58: Devastating for the Haters
After finally getting a win at home, the Rangers are back in the win column—and Joe and Eric are back in the same hotel room in New York City to break it all…
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#57: The Panarin Problem and the Sullivan Solution
In this week’s episode, Joe and Chip tackle a loaded agenda—from Vitali Kravtsov’s latest exit and the Carson Soucy redemption arc, to whether Chris Drury…
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#56: To Panic or Not To Panic?
Joe and Eric kick off an early-morning recording session to talk through a sluggish New York Rangers start — and play a new game: Should You Panic or Not? Joe…
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#55 w/ Jonny Lazarus: The Panarin Question That Could Define the Rangers Season
It’s episode 55—the Ryan Lindgren episode—of Blueshirt Bandwidth, and Joe and Eric dive into the Rangers’ scoring drought, defensive resurgence, and the…