EDMONTON, Alberta — The Devils fast start has been fueled by its talented youth. The Oilers know what it is like to have one of the best young players in the game and Connor McDavid didn’t disappoint. He had three assists and the Oilers beat New Jersey 6-3 on Friday night to hand the Devils’ […]
Read MoreThis just in: Jeff Sessions cannot recall whether he has ever seen Alexander Ovechkin play hockey. Ovechkin may claim, as he did Thursday, that he is not trying to be “a politics man” in the wake of his social media commitment to and endorsement of Russian president Vladimir Putin, but only the willfully naïve would […]
Read MoreSUNRISE, Fla. — No matter how high or low internal or external expectations were for the Rangers this season, a large part of their fate was staked on the back of Kevin Shattenkirk. So it was no wonder why they started this season so woefully inconsistent, with good efforts undercut by some extreme lapses in […]
Read MoreSUNRISE, Fla. — Flu season is upon us. At least among the Rangers, as fourth-line center Boo Nieves missed Saturday night’s 5-4 overtime win against the Panthers at BB&T Center after coming down with the illness in the morning. “Thought he might turn around,” coach Alain Vigneault said, “but he hasn’t.” Vigneault had already been […]
Read MoreThe Islanders entered play Sunday with three goals by their defensemen through the season’s first 13 games. With some help from stray Avalanche sticks, skates and legs, Islanders blueliners struck gold in Game 14 and racked up four goals in a 6-4 win at Barclays Center. “It’s huge,” said Scott Mayfield, who scored the first […]
Read MoreThis was never going to be a throw-away year. Those don’t exist for the Rangers, not while Henrik Lundqvist remains in nets. But whether it was explicitly described or just understood, this was tabbed as a year of transition for the perennial postseason contender. This was far more than just another retool on the fly […]
Read MoreThere was some sloppy play Sunday night by the Islanders that left coach Doug Weight frustrated after the game, but there was at least one thing that was clean, crisp and quick: Mathew Barzal. The Islanders’ 20-year-old center continued to break out, setting a single-game franchise rookie record with five assists to spark a 6-4 […]
Read MoreJ.T. Miller did, in fact, make the trip back to New York on Sunday with the Rangers. But the way the winger played on their two-game road trip through Florida, he may have wanted to keep skating in the Sunshine State. Miller scored the game-winning goal in Thursday’s overtime win over the Lightning before tallying […]
Read MoreThese are the kinds of things that happen to teams that are winning, so forgive the Rangers if the good fortune still seems foreign. Yet they are not going to apologize for riding a wave of opportunity, using three third-period power-play goals to storm past John Tortorella’s shockingly undisciplined Blue Jackets, 5-3, on Monday night […]
Read MoreMika Zibanejad, whose consecutive left-circle faceoff victories against Brandon Dubinsky led directly to the Rangers’ second and third, third-period power-play goals that fueled the club’s impressive 5-3 victory over the Jackets at the Garden on Monday, seems to be filling the role as No. 1 center rather seamlessly. That opening, of course, was created by […]
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