Click:楼凤app Hats flew onto the ice at Barclays Center on Tuesday night as John Tavares finished off a lesson in the art of deflection. The Islanders’ captain tallied a hat trick, all three goals coming off redirections and the last serving as a game-winner to lift his team past the pesky but still winless Coyotes […]
Read MoreA man with no stick and one glove helped give life to the Islanders on Tuesday night. Already trailing the Coyotes 1-0 in the first period, the Islanders were handed the challenge of killing off 36 seconds of a five-on-three power play. To make matters worse, a shot snapped Casey Cizikas’ stick in half and […]
Read MoreIt was a bit alarming when Henrik Lundqvist did not practice Tuesday, as the franchise goaltender had said he “twisted” his leg late in the second period of his team’s 4-1 loss to the Sharks at the Garden on Monday night. Lundqvist did finish the game and said afterward that the leg was “the least […]
Read MoreDerek Stepan has a plan for Thursday. He’s just not sure he will follow it. He wants to keep the emotions off the ice when his new team meets his old team, his first time skating against guys he grew up playing with in the NHL, in the building he called home for seven years. […]
Read MoreA day after Doug Weight said Josh Ho-Sang could potentially return to the lineup as soon as Thursday, the Islanders demoted the rookie to AHL Bridgeport. Winners of three straight — the last two with Ho-Sang as a healthy scratch — the Islanders left for a two-game road trip Wednesday without the 21-year-old winger. “I’m […]
Read MoreThere hasn’t been a lot of bright spots for the Rangers, as they bring a 2-6-2 record into the Garden on Thursday night to take on old pal Derek Stepan and the winless Coyotes. Someone is going to have to come out victorious. But as Rangers coach Alain Vigneault has made it clear his whole […]
Read MoreFor the first time in almost a week, Rangers coach Alain Vigneault is going to be able to use his coveted four-line rotation. At least that’s the plan now that the team has Boo Nieves up from AHL Hartford to center a speedy fourth line between Michael Grabner and Pavel Buchnevich for Thursday night’s Garden […]
Read MoreThis can be looked at two ways. First, the Rangers beat the worst team in the league, a winless group of young players, so whoop-de-doo. Or, secondly, the struggling Rangers finally did what they were supposed to do and beat a desperate team during an emotional return to the Garden for a former teammate who […]
Read MoreST. PAUL, Minn. — Eric Staal had a goal and assist, Luke Kunin and Zack Mitchell each scored their first NHL goals, and the Wild beat the Islanders 6-4 on Thursday night. Anthony Beauvillier, Nick Leddy, Anders Lee and Mathew Barzal scored for the Islanders, who had won three in a row. Thomas Greiss finished […]
Read MoreThis isn’t about a goaltending controversy because there is none and this isn’t about the big picture, because for the Rangers these days the only picture that matters is the one right in front of their faces. In other words, the next game and nothing more than the next game. And in the aftermath of […]
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