Marc Staal took a moment to find exactly the right word, and he did. “I think the last couple years the expectations — I wouldn’t say low — but they were … tempered,” Staal told The Post after his Rangers won for the third straight game, taking a definitive 4-1 victory over the Ducks at […]
Read MoreThe first day of the rest of the Islanders’ short life at Barclays Center began Tuesday night, but they couldn’t get a win to cap off the celebration. In a game the Islanders dominated for long stretches, the Red Wings made the most of their chances and Trevor Daley broke a tie with 9:57 left […]
Read MoreThere were glimpses of the skill and of the old top-line chemistry, which were all good signs for Mika Zibanejad in his return to the Rangers lineup. The top-line pivot came back for the team’s 4-1 win over the Ducks on Tuesday night at the Garden following a nine-game absence because of a delayed onset […]
Read MoreDon’t get Kevin Hayes wrong. While the Rangers’ center readily acknowledges that he is “a pass-first type of player,” No. 13 isn’t on a mission to feed everyone else while he himself goes hungry. “No, it’s not like that,” Hayes said, laughing a winner’s laugh following the Blueshirts’ convincing 4-1 victory over the Ducks at […]
Read MoreIt’s official! The New York Islanders are headed home to Long Island. Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday made the announcement — with Long Island legend Billy Joel at his side — that the NHL team has won a bid to build a new, year-round, 18,000-seat arena on the grounds of the Belmont Park horse track. […]
Read MoreSo many of us who grew up on Long Island were the products of broken hearts: it was our fathers and our grandfathers, our uncles and older cousins who had given their souls over to the Dodgers when they ruled Brooklyn, when it seemed impossible to believe they wouldn’t forever be anchored in the Borough […]
Read MoreHockey around New York City is buzzing these days, pumping some extra juice into a showdown Thursday between the Rangers and Devils at Prudential Center. “It may not have been, in the past few years, as intense with the standings the way they were,” Kevin Shattenkirk said. “But it’s fun to be playing against the […]
Read MoreHaving won 12 of their past 16 games entering a meeting Thursday with the Devils, the Rangers have pushed themselves back into the thick of things in the Metropolitan Division. But they’re making sure their brutal start doesn’t entirely go to waste. “I think for us, the good part about it is we still feel […]
Read MoreHenrik Lundqvist was exasperated. The Rangers goalie was sitting there, knowing he was the only reason his Rangers didn’t get run out of the building, knowing on most nights this would have been a lot worse than just a 4-3 shootout loss to the Devils on Tuesday at Prudential Center. Lundqvist knew above everything else […]
Read MoreThe Islanders started Thursday night lacking urgency. They finished without it, too. Playing against the lowly Ducks, losers of three straight, the Islanders face-planted late in the third period before losing in overtime, 5-4, at Barclays Center. It’s the eighth loss in eleven games for the Islanders as they slowly dip lower in the Metropolitan […]
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