Islanders coach Doug Weight takes a timeout for some Q&A with The Post’s Steve Serby ahead of the team’s season opener Friday. Q: Are you driven to make the Islanders not The Other Hockey Team in New York? A: Yeah, of course. Like, the Rangers are the Rangers, right? And the Yankees are the Yankees. […]
Read MoreThere was so much hype, so much conjecture, so much unknown going into the start of this Rangers regular season that a loss to last year’s worst team in the league has to feel worse than just one defeat. It has to feel just the way Mika Zibanejad put it after he couldn’t get the […]
Read MoreFormer NHL player Jiri Hudler could stand to learn a thing or two about proper airline etiquette — at least according to a report on his in-flight behavior from Czech tabloid Blesk. According to Blesk and CBS Sports, Hudler was aboard a recent Delta Air Lines flight from New York to Prague when he asked […]
Read MoreIf the Islanders had been short on skill and long on grit in the recent past, the equation has flipped this season which starts Friday night in Columbus, Ohio, against the Blue Jackets. On the opening night roster there are talents that were not present to start last year, the likes of wingers Jordan Eberle […]
Read MoreMaybe the preseason schedule, in which the Rangers packed six games into nine days so they could be done with it all by Sept. 26, wasn’t quite the panacea represented by head coach Alain Vigneault. Because in evaluating his own game as a tepid “all right’ after surrendering three goals on the first 18 shots […]
Read MoreIt was a bittersweet return home for Kevin Shattenkirk, as the kid from New Rochelle who grew up rooting for the Rangers made his debut for the Blueshirts during their season-opening 4-2 loss to the Avalanche on Thursday night at the Garden. “I think the result still stings right now,” Shattenkirk said after he finished […]
Read MoreBruins winger Jake DeBrusk brought father and former NHL enforcer Louie to tears Thursday night, after the 20-year-old Canadian scored his first goal in his NHL debut. Following Boston’s scoreless power play early in the second period, DeBrusk put one away for the home team, giving the Bruins a 2-1 lead over the Predators. The […]
Read MoreFifteen seconds into his first shift and 1:50 into his first NHL game, here came 18-year-old Filip Chytil across the line on left side with the puck on his stick, Mats Zuccarello on his right, and one Avalanche defenseman back … and going down. “Fifty-fifty to pass or shoot,” Chytil told The Post after Friday’s […]
Read MoreCOLUMBUS, Ohio — Much to the Islanders’ chagrin, Artemi Panarin didn’t need to score a goal to have a big impact in his first game for the Blue Jackets. Acquired in an offseason trade with the Blackhawks and touted as the elite scorer Columbus needs, Panarin had three assists and passed sharply as the Blue […]
Read MoreThe Rangers have a number of areas to clean up in turning their attention from Thursday’s season-opening 4-2 loss at the Garden to the Avalanche to Saturday’s game in Toronto against an abundantly talented Maple Leafs team that will slice a generous opponent to ribbons if given even half the chance. That’s why much of […]
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