Dynamic Duos Lead Holiday Issue of Blueshirt Bulletin

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This month's print edition of Blueshirt Bulletin is centered around pairs of players. Sam Weinman of the Journal News and Rangers Report has an article on Brandon Dubinsky that includes how he came to befriend Nikolai Zherdev, who is the subject of a companion piece by Steve Zipay of Newsday and Blue Notes. The defensive duo of Marc Staal and Paul Mara is the subject of a report by Andrew Gross of the Record and Ranger Rants, while the newcomers on defense, Wade Redden and Dmitri Kalinin, reveal personal details in Scoop Malinowski's Biofiles, with the normally reticent Redden particularly revealing in his. Joe McDonald of NY Sports Day and NY Sportscene has some inside info on the Rangers' goaltending tandem, Henrik Lundqvist and Steve Valiquette.

That's hardly all -- Sam discusses the Rangers' personality makeover, we have an analysis of the power play as well as extensive news and notes, and John Halligan checks in with his monthly All Around the Rink With the Rangers column. But what would Blueshirt Bulletin be without our unparalleled prospect coverage? Jess Rubenstein has an interview with 2008 draftee Derek Stepan, now with the University of Wisconsin. Bruce Berlet has an article on Hartford defensemen Corey Potter and Ethan Graham, who were a tandem at Michigan State in their college days, as well as his usual compendium of Wolf Pack news and notes. And Mitch Beck gets the skinny on every Charlotte player from Checkers GM-coach Derek Wilkinson.

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