2019 March

Vigneault balancing defense-pair experiments with winning

SAN JOSE, Calif. — It was one point to go for the Rangers in order to clinch a playoff spot, and indeed by the time the club took the ice for Tuesday night’s match against the Sharks, a tournament berth already could have been earned with a Bruins regulation loss to the Predators in Boston […]

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US women’s hockey ‘makes history’ with last-minute deal

USA Hockey and the women’s national team reached a wage agreement Tuesday night to avoid a boycott of the world championships. Players and USA Hockey announced the deal in a joint statement just three days before the tournament begins in Plymouth, Michigan. It’s a four-year agreement that pays players outside of the six-month Olympic period. […]

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Devils find another dispiriting way to lose

Patrik Laine scored in a shootout and the Jets rallied from a two-goal deficit to beat the Devils 4-3 on Tuesday night at the Prudential Center in Newark in the makeup of a game that was postponed by a snowstorm earlier this month. Connor Hellebuyck made 20 saves and stopped all three Devils shootout attempts […]

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Rangers sure don’t sound like a team that just clinched

SAN JOSE, Calif. — And so they are going dancing for the seventh straight season and the 11th time in the 12 years of the hard-cap era, and that is something of which the Rangers can be proud. But even as the Blueshirts earned — got? — the one point they needed to clinch the […]

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How Josh Ho-Sang turned ‘crazy year’ into dream come true

Rarely are the things coming out of a player’s mouth as interesting as the things he does on the ice. But Josh Ho-Sang is nothing if not a rarity, a mix of sublime talent and introspective candidness that make the Islanders’ 21-year-old forward a magnetic force. He speaks of all the things he has learned […]

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Rangers making push for top college player

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The Rangers, who signed college free agents Vinni Lettieri and Vince Pedrie this week, were among the clubs in the hunt for Union College’s Hobey Baker finalist Mike Vecchione, The Post has learned. While Lettieri and Pedrie are on their way to the AHL Hartford Wolf Pack on amateur tryouts before […]

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It’s not time to bury the Rangers, yet

The first instinct was to write 750 words about the Rangers in the wake of their playoff clinching 5-4 overtime defeat to the Sharks in San Jose on Tuesday that could have been titled, “Zed is Dead II—The Sequel.” And perhaps after the final five regular-season games and another four, five, six or seven tournament […]

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‘You want to have a bowl of nails for lunch’: Put-up time for Isles

When Doug Weight first took over as interim head coach of the Islanders on Jan. 17, he brought with him a hopeful, if not wistful, optimism. Now, after his team clawed back into the playoff picture, then went through a lull of 3-5-1 that has them again on the outside looking in, the outlook is […]

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Vigneault: Jimmy Vesey will be in playoff mix despite ‘real off night’

There are still some decisions left for Alain Vigneault to make internally when figuring out the way he wants his Rangers lineup to look when the postseason starts in two weeks. Though rookie winger Jimmy Vesey is set to be a healthy scratch for Friday’s game against the Penguins at the Garden, he is still […]

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One ‘awful period’ may have just dashed Islanders’ playoff hopes

PHILADELPHIA — The Flyers let loose on the Islanders in a wild opening period. Wayne Simmonds got his 30th goal of the season as Philadelphia scored five times in a fight-filled first period on the way to a 6-3 victory on Thursday night. Cal Clutterbuck, Jason Chimera and Andrew Ladd had the goals for the […]

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