Prioritizing the future over the present isn’t only about making moves leading into the trade deadline. It means protecting the contract status of 2017 first-round draft selections Lias Andersson and Filip Chytil, as well. “We are not going to burn the first year off any contracts,” general manager Jeff Gorton told The Post following practice […]
Read MoreRALEIGH, N.C. — After allowing 19 goals in his previous four games, Thomas Greiss finally had the breakthrough night he and the Islanders were looking for. Greiss stopped 45 shots for his first shutout of the season, and the Islanders beat the Hurricanes 3-0 on Friday night. “He was great,” coach Doug Weight said. “He […]
Read MoreMarc Staal, who practiced Friday for the first time since sustaining a cervical injury midway through the second period at Nashville on Feb. 3, was direct in assessing the Alexei Emelin hit that sent him to injured reserve. “I think I put myself in a vulnerable position, but it was a dirty follow-through, whether it […]
Read MoreClick:cnc machining china OTTAWA — It was the emotion of this train-wreck season coming to a head in one look, one glaring stare down the bench from Henrik Lundqvist as he was on his way to the locker room, yanked once again well before the final horn sounded. The Rangers netminder and franchise bedrock was […]
Read MoreYou would remember the Purge of 2004 a little bit differently if the Rangers had emerged with a haul featuring their first- or second-line center for the next dozen years. It not only could have been that way, but it should have been that way. The Blueshirts should have had Travis Zajac as part of […]
Read MoreOTTAWA — Kevin Hayes came here with the full intention of playing. Despite coach Alain Vigneault saying his second-line center was “less than 50 percent” for going against the Senators with a lower-body ailment, Hayes was able to play during his team’s difficult 6-3 loss Saturday afternoon at Canadian Tire Center. Hayes said he had […]
Read MoreFour spectators were removed from their seats at a National Hockey League game in Chicago on Saturday night after allegedly making racist comments toward a black player on the visiting team. During the third period of the game between the Chicago Blackhawks and Washington Capitals, Washington player Devante Smith-Pelly was in the penalty box, “when […]
Read MoreAs he sat at his stall in the aftermath of another game that played out like too many have in recent weeks, Henrik Lundqvist was asked for his state of mind, given all that’s happened lately. After not having lost four straight games in regulation since 2011 before this season, the Rangers have now done […]
Read MoreSo yes, the Rangers are undermanned, demoralized and going down as metaphorically bloody as Butch and Sundance did in Bolivia. But before spending too much sympathy on the Blueshirts, we would all be wise to remember games like this weekend’s twin drubbings in Ottawa on Saturday by a score of 6-3 to the Senators and […]
Read MoreThere is no ideal setting for a five-minute lapse in a hockey game, and these are certainly not those times for the Islanders. All it took was four minutes and 12 seconds to flip a strong effort into a losing one for a team facing a small margin for error heading down the home stretch […]
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