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Blueshirts Breakaway: A show about the New York Rangers

The Flying V: EP 12 - Ex Machina

Blueshirts Breakaway: A show about the New York Rangers

Ryan Mead and Greg Kaplan

Sports News, News, Sports, Hockey

4.5686 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

A turbulent week in Rangers-land, The Athletic's Vince Mercogliano returns to discuss significant injuries to Igor Shesterkin and Adam Fox, the ongoing performance issues with the squad, and why the Rangers deadline plans may be changing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:26.7

Shopify.com.ukau.ukesl. Hello, hello, and welcome to episode 12 of the Flying V podcast.

0:52.7

I almost said New Ice City there.

0:54.9

I'm your host, Vince McCogliano of the Flying V podcast. I almost said New Ice City there. I'm your host, Vince McCogliano of the athletic, and we are back this week.

1:02.2

A little bit of a change of plans.

1:04.0

It's just going to be me today.

1:05.8

I had a guest lined up, but there is just too much going on.

1:11.3

So much this week feels like it's been a full week already.

1:15.3

We're only on Wednesday.

1:16.8

But I've been working the phones a lot.

1:19.2

There's been a lot of Rangers news.

1:21.0

There's been Rangers injuries.

1:22.6

There's been just a lot of things going on.

1:24.6

And quite frankly, I want to run you guys through all the latest.

1:29.1

Everything that I'm hearing, this is going to be more of a reaction episode, I would say, than anything else.

1:35.6

Really a quick hitter.

1:36.9

Just going to keep it to the one segment.

1:38.5

I'm sure it's going to be kind of lengthy because there's so much to talk about.

1:41.2

But I just kind of want to unload my notebook, unload my

1:44.5

brain, and run you guys through everything that I'm hearing and everything that is going on

1:50.1

with this team right now, which despite being near the bottom of the standings in the Eastern

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