2019 March

Devils finally win a game with rare offensive outburst

If the Devils could just play the Flyers every night, maybe that winless streak would not have reached 10 games, and New Jersey would be doing more than playing meaningless games in the final month. Adam Henrique and Taylor Hall scored two goals apiece and the Devils snapped a 10-game winless streak with a 6-2 […]

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Henrik Lundqvist may return to Rangers sooner than expected

Alain Vigneault wasn’t willing to say Henrik Lundqvist is ahead of schedule in returning from his hip injury suffered March 7 against the Panthers, but the Rangers’ franchise goalie could be back sooner than expected. The coach said Lundqvist skated Wednesday and Thursday, and will skate with the team Friday morning before its Garden match […]

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Brave boycott is about the future of women’s hockey in America

Good for them. Good for the US Women’s National Team for boycotting this year’s World Championship, to be hosted at U.S.A. Hockey’s new facility in Plymouth, Mich., starting on March 31. Good for them in demanding more from USA Hockey, not just for their personal well-being, but for the well-being of women’s hockey going forward. And good […]

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Rangers just can’t win at the Garden anymore

There is not enough time for this to disappear, nothing that can happen over the final four games remaining in the regular season for the Rangers at the Garden that can eliminate the creeping suspicion they are one team on Broadway and another off it. Because it’s more than just the 4-3 shootout loss to […]

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Devils have no answer for Sidney Crosby

PITTSBURGH — Their MVP candidate center, the one that’s not Sidney Crosby, is hurting. Four of their top seven defensemen are in street clothes dealing with a variety of injuries. And yet the Penguins keep rolling anyway, and it helped that they were playing the Devils. Their 6-4 victory over the Devils on Friday night […]

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Rick Nash can take a punch, but he’s sure not happy about it

This was an unscripted moment of frustration for a player who almost never complains. “What am I supposed to do?” Rick Nash asked after he took an unpenalized punch to the face from Alex Petrovic at 16:30 of the third period in the Rangers’ 4-3 shootout loss to the Panthers on Friday night at the […]

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‘We just weren’t good’: Skidding Islanders drop another one

John Tortorella and Doug Weight were just a few feet away from each other. The mental and emotional distance separating the coaches was another matter following a 3-2 overtime victory by the Blue Jackets over the Islanders on Saturday at Barclays Center. Cam Atkinson delivered the winner for Columbus 1:19 into the extra session. “We […]

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Rangers reveal the secret to their road dominance

SAINT PAUL, Minn. — They are Sybilesque, that’s what these multi-personality Rangers are — one way wearing Blue and another clad in White. “I think when we’re home and something goes wrong, we kind of look at ourselves as victims, but when we’re on the road we have a different mentality where we just dig […]

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US hockey icon: Women should boycott if no equality

SAINT PAUL, Minn. — Separate and unequal. It may be only now that the U.S. National Women’s Hockey Team’s righteous fight for equal opportunity has become part of the public’s consciousness, but the struggle to rectify these anachronistic conditions has been ongoing for a generation. “I can’t say that I’m aware of the specific details […]

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Rangers’ Marc Staal comes up big in right-side cameo

SAINT PAUL, Minn. — So there was Marc Staal paired with Ryan McDonagh for the seventh straight game, but wait … Staal on the right side? When, he was asked following the Rangers’ 3-2 victory over the Wild on Saturday, did he last play an entire game on his off-side? “Uh … 25 years ago?” […]

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