The Flying V: EP 7 - The Hurt Locker with The Athletic's Peter Baugh

Blueshirts Breakaway: A show about the New York Rangers

Ryan Mead and Greg Kaplan

Sports News, News, Sports, Hockey

4.5 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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This week on The Flying V, The Athletic's Vince Mercogliano takes stock of the Rangers as they reach the quarter pole of the season. What's working, what's not working, and what the team needs to do to have a successful season. Then, Peter Baugh re-joins the show to discuss the Rangers performance in Las Vegas and the status of team captain J.T. Miller. Lastly, Vince answers some of your questions in his latest mailbag. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, hello, and welcome to episode seven of the Flying V podcast. I'm your host, Vincent
0:24.3	Mercagliano of The Athletic, and I am greeting you all today from back in New York in my home
0:32.8	office right now. The team is at West, but I am back home. This is actually the first road trip
0:40.0	of the season that I am not along the ride for. My colleague from the athletic Peter Ball,
0:47.1	who you guys will hear from later on in this show, had raised his hand because he wanted to take
0:53.0	this trip. Some of you will remember he wanted to take this trip.
0:57.5	Some of you will remember he used to cover the Colorado Avalanche.
1:00.4	He was there that season a few years ago when they won the cup.
1:02.3	And I know he still has a lot of friends out there.
1:06.3	Also has some family along the way on this trip.
1:07.8	So he asked if he could take it. And of course, you know, for me to have a chance to catch my breath at this time of the season after a really, really heavy travel schedule early on, was a welcome reprieve on my part.
1:19.9	It also gives me a chance to take care of some personal stuff, spend some quality time with my family after I think I've had like 20 something nights and hotels already
1:29.5	this season. We're only a quarter of the way through. It also gives me a chance to work on
1:34.2	some features and some deeper dive stuff that I'm working on right now for the athletic. I'm
1:40.1	actually writing and I'm excited for these to start coming out in the next week or two,
1:45.3	some pretty fun lookbacks on Rangers history in honor of the centennial season.
1:52.2	I'm doing stories individually on each of the Stanley Cup winning teams for the franchise in
1:58.9	1928, 1933, and 1940. So if you're into the history
2:03.9	and maybe looking to learn some new stuff about the teams of the past and the original
2:07.9	Rangers and all that, I think you guys will hopefully enjoy those. I'll keep you posted on
2:12.7	the timing from all that. Also, today, kind of freshest on my mind in this moment, I am working on our
2:22.2	quarter season report. The Rangers have now played 21 out of 82 games, so that puts them right
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