MONTREAL — This isn’t exactly what Alain Vigneault had in mind when the Rangers coach decided to play rugged winger Tanner Glass for Game 1 of the team’s first-round playoff series against the Canadiens on Wednesday night at Bell Centre. But certainly, Vigneault will take it. Glass scored his second career playoff goal in the […]
Read MoreNBC Sports analyst and 1994 Stanley Cup-winning Ranger Eddie Olczyk talks about the Capitals’ playoff pressure, a championship mindset and Connor McDavid’s greatness with The Post’s Justin Terranova. Q: Who is your team to beat? A: For Washington, it’s now or never. … With the year that the Nicklas Backstrom line has had, along with […]
Read MoreMONTREAL — This was the Rangers’ highest expectation when considering the career ahead of Brady Skjei. It was on display with the type of force the 23-year-old defenseman showed while his team struck the opening salvo with a 2-0 victory in Game 1 of their first-round series against the Canadiens on Wednesday night at Bell […]
Read MoreMONTREAL — Alain Vigneault jokes he gives all his best answers in French, his native tongue. And it wasn’t even an answer that was his best line after Thursday’s practice, stopping on his way out of the press conference room to make an announcement. As translated by friendly French-speaking media members, Vigneault stopped to say […]
Read MoreMONTREAL — Because the Rangers won and because he wasn’t hurt, it was easier for Rick Nash to laugh about being speared in the groin by Canadiens defenseman Andrei Markov near the end of the 2-0 Game 1 victory in their first-round playoff series on Wednesday night at Bell Centre. “It’s never fun taking one […]
Read MoreMONTREAL — There was impending free agent Brendan Smith playing his most formidable game as a Ranger; there was potential buyout candidate Dan Girardi playing a throwback game in which he threw his weight around while matched against the Canadiens’ top unit; there was likely expansion-available Oscar Lindberg centering the fourth line that made a […]
Read MoreNewborn babies have been baptized inside it. Kentucky Derby winning horses have been fed from it. Grown men have showered, slept and even spooned with it. It’s covered over a million miles of terrain from Disneyworld to the nightmarish war zones of Afghanistan, and once even found itself at the bottom of a swimming pool. […]
Read MoreMONTREAL — The Rangers were that close — and then they weren’t. And now they have to figure out a way to get over this. Because as much as they would like to think otherwise, the manner in which they lost 4-3 in overtime to the Canadiens in Game 2 of their first-round playoff series […]
Read MoreIf these pooches look proud, they have good reason: they’re among the top dogs chosen for Madison Square Garden’s Pup Playoffs. The four-legged trio won the honor after the Garden asked Rangers fans to post their cutest pictures of ice-hockey hounds, all dressed to skate, on social media. The ones who got the most likes […]
Read MoreMONTREAL — Live in your end, die in your end. That’s the takeaway from Friday’s Game 2, 4-3 overtime defeat to the Canadiens the Rangers can chew on as they prepare for Sunday night’s fulcrum match at the Garden. For though it was a gutty performance from the newly minted Black-and-Blueshirts, who were credited with […]
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