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Kings Edge Closer to Playoffs, Dominate Rangers at MSG

Kings Edge Closer to Playoffs, Dominate Rangers at MSG

NEW YORK – Tuesday night’s 4-2 Kings’ win over the Rangers was Exhibit A why the rest of the league is hoping and praying the defending Stanley Cup champions will miss the playoffs when the regular season ends in 18 days. It’s a sign of respect towards the Kings...

Rangers Roast Ducks in Garden Dinner Party

Rangers Roast Ducks in Garden Dinner Party

NEW YORK – Sunday night between the Rangers and Ducks was a measuring-stick game. It went far better for the Rangers than it did the Ducks. Anaheim (46-21-7) came into action tied for the league lead with 99 points. The Rangers (46-18-7) came in just two points...

Rangers Find A Way — Again

Rangers Find A Way — Again

NEW YORK – The nicest thing you can say about the Rangers’ 2-1 win Sunday night against the Panthers was they found a way. They always do. It wasn’t as pretty as many of their recent performances, but it was a win. Two more points to add to their impressive ledger....

Yandle Goes From Bouncy House To Big Apple

Yandle Goes From Bouncy House To Big Apple

NEW YORK – A bouncy-house at your four-year-old’s birthday party is hardly the place to find out you’re about to move halfway across the country. That’s the situation new Rangers defenseman Keith Yandle found himself in Sunday afternoon, when Coyotes general manager...

NHL Continues Benefiting From College Hockey’s Growth

NHL Continues Benefiting From College Hockey’s Growth

NEW YORK – Thirty-five years ago, television broadcaster Al Michaels asked a question that’s become synonymous with hockey in America. The question had a major impact on the five rings of the 1980 Winter Olympics in upstate New York. The answer has left an indelible...

Rangers Edge Closer To Division Lead

Rangers Edge Closer To Division Lead

NEW YORK – With all the talk about what the Rangers need to do at next Monday’s trade deadline to improve for a run to the Stanley Cup, an important fact seems to have been misplaced. This team, this seemingly-flawed group that apparently isn’t as good as last year’s...

Lundqvist Expected to Make Full Recovery After Vascular Injury

Despite Injury Scare, Lundqvist Leads Rangers over ‘Canes

NEW YORK – The Rangers went from fearful to fearsome, all in the span of about 25 minutes. Early in the second period, Rangers captain Ryan McDonagh accidentally lifted goaltender Henrik Lundqvist’s mask partially off his face, exposing the goaltender’s neck to Brad...

For Lundqvist, The One That Snuck Through

For Lundqvist, The One That Snuck Through

NEW YORK – As the media was allowed into the Rangers dressing room minutes after their 1-0 loss to Montreal on Thursday night, goaltender Henrik Lundqvist sat solemnly at his locker, a look of bewilderment and frustration etched all over his face. He had matched...

For Rangers It’s Not Picasso, But It’s A Win

For Rangers It’s Not Picasso, But It’s A Win

NEW YORK – They won’t be sending this Rangers performance to the Hockey Hall of Fame any time soon. The Metropolitan Museum of Art won’t be accepting it, either. The two points the Rangers earned in their final game before the All-Star break, though, won’t be getting...

Forty Years in Making, Isles Blank Rangers

Forty Years in Making, Isles Blank Rangers

NEW YORK – All good things must, eventually, come to an end. For the Rangers, that good thing was a record-long streak of success, the likes of which they hadn’t seen in over 40 years. They had their run of 13 wins in 14 games snapped by the division-leading Islanders...

Rangers Edge Closer To Division Lead

Rangers Trounce Woeful Sabres

NEW YORK – Saturday night’s game wasn’t handed to the Rangers on a silver platter. No, it was handed to them on a blue and gold platter, hand-delivered by an undisciplined and unfocused Sabres team that allowed four goals in a span of 3:48 during the first period,...

Rangers Roast Ducks in Garden Dinner Party

Healthy Rangers Continue Surge

NEW YORK – It shouldn’t come as a surprise the Rangers’ eight-game winning streak – their longest in 40 years – has come after the team finally got healthy. Since captain Ryan McDonagh returned to the lineup from a separated shoulder on Nov. 28, the team is 10-2-0,...

Rangers Continue Winning Ways Before Christmas

Rangers Continue Winning Ways Before Christmas

NEW YORK – After two periods of frustration and consternation, the Capitals finally got some leverage in the third period of Tuesday’s game against the Rangers. Well, they almost got leverage. Henrik Lundqvist was there to stymie the furious Capitals comeback attempt,...

Fast Makes Quick Work Of Flyers

Fast Makes Quick Work Of Flyers

NEW YORK – After scoring his first-career National Hockey League goal during the Rangers’ 5-2 win over the Flyers Saturday afternoon, Jesper Fast stood by his locker and spoke quietly to reporters, who were wondering what his goal felt like. Rangers coach Alain...

Rangers Edge Closer To Division Lead

Familiar Faces Send Rangers Over Habs

NEW YORK – Many of the same cast of characters that sent the Rangers to the Stanley Cup Final last spring sent them to this season’s quarter pole in convincing fashion. Martin St. Louis, who scored the overtime winner in Game 4 of the conference final against Montreal...

Rangers Edge Closer To Division Lead

Callahan, Boyle, Stralman Revel in Return

NEW YORK – The release of the NHL schedule over the summer was met by an unusual amount of anticipation by Lightning forward Ryan Callahan. The former Rangers captain quickly flipped through his team’s slate, taking a peek to see when his return to New York would come...

For Lundqvist, The One That Snuck Through

Good News Amidst Missed Opportunity for Rangers

NEW YORK – Even on a night of missed opportunities, the Rangers got another jolt of good news. It came in the form of No. 22 stepping onto the ice at Madison Square Garden, the Rangers’ big free agent splash Dan Boyle returning from the broken right hand he injured on...

Lundqvist Expected to Make Full Recovery After Vascular Injury

Rangers Rebound, Halt Pens Win Streak

NEW YORK – The question wasn’t who are these guys, it was who were those guys on Sunday? The Rangers’ effort two nights ago, against one of the league’s most inept defensive teams, was woeful. They were a step behind from the opening faceoff to the final buzzer. They...

Rangers Edge Closer To Division Lead

Undermanned Rangers Fall In Shootout

NEW YORK – As defenseman Dylan McIlrath skated back to the bench in the final second of the first period after serving a five-minute penalty for fighting, the entire Rangers bench stood and banged their sticks against the boards as a sign of respect. Moments later,...

Rangers Continue Winning Ways Before Christmas

Frustration, Anger, And A Comeback

NEW YORK – Frustration was mounting for the New York Rangers on Monday night, and it was manifesting itself in a variety of ways. There was the reckless – Chris Kreider’s shove of Jonas Brodin into the boards in the final minute of the first period earned him a game...

For Rangers It’s Not Picasso, But It’s A Win

First Time’s The Charm For Rangers

NEW YORK – In their sixth game of the season, the Rangers delivered an unusual amount of firsts. The first goals of the season for Carl Hagelin, Martin St. Louis, and Kevin Hayes, who got the first of his NHL career. The first time in franchise history the team scored...

Rangers Edge Closer To Division Lead

Vigneault’s Changes Send Rangers to First Home Win

NEW YORK – It’s not that things were getting stagnant, it’s that there were a few guys not pulling their weight. Sometimes, change is needed. So in the second period, with the Rangers floundering in both zones, Rangers coach Alain Vigneault switched things up. Chris...

Defensive Miscues Send Rangers to Another Defeat

Defensive Miscues Send Rangers to Another Defeat

NEW YORK – First the Rangers lost the lead. Then they lost their confidence. Then they lost the game. A third-period meltdown did them in; just two nights after the Maple Leafs scored five goals in a span of less than ten minutes in the second period, the Islanders...

Lundqvist Expected to Make Full Recovery After Vascular Injury

Home Opener Nightmare for Rangers

NEW YORK – They streamed into the building, 18,006 of them, with more than the normal amount of anticipation for the home opener. After last year’s run to the Stanley Cup Final, it isn’t just hope that permeates the walls of Madison Square Garden this year, it is...

Kings Avoid Distractions Ahead of Game 4

Kings Avoid Distractions Ahead of Game 4

NEW YORK – Better not ask the LA Kings players for tickets to tonight’s Game 4. Doesn’t matter the relationship you might have with them. They’re not budging. And forget about having breakfast or lunch. Eat on your own, mom. Hang out by yourself, wife. Tour New York...

Angels In The Locker Room

Angels In The Locker Room

May 30, 2014 NEW YORK – Multiple Rangers had reason to look towards the heavens as the final seconds of the Eastern Conference final ticked away. Their loved ones were looking straight back down, straight at them. Their gaze penetrating the vibrating roof of deafening...

Angels In The Locker Room

Rangers Gazing Towards Playoffs

April 10, 2014 NEW YORK – Thursday night’s match wasn’t about today for the New York Rangers. It was about tomorrow. It wasn’t pretty. But tomorrow, no one will care about pretty. Thursday’s game wasn’t about pretty or ugly. Short or tall. It was about moving forward....

Angels In The Locker Room

Rangers Shaken Up By A Shake Up

March 5, 2014 NEW YORK – The news was met with silence and disbelief. The Rangers locker room had been open to the media for about 20 minutes after the conclusion of the team’s morning skate, and most players had already spoken about their desire to see the team’s...

Angels In The Locker Room

Zuccarello sends Rangers past Wings with Goal

January 16, 2014 NEW YORK – Mats Zuccarello called it a lucky goal. His teammates called it a skill goal. Ranger fans were just happy it was a goal. In a game that saw just one puck cross the goal line, the Rangers (25-21-3) rode Zuccarello’s third-period tally to a...

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