ANAHEIM, Calif. — So the first domino fell in the Rangers’ seven-defensemen-into-six-slots quandary and it was Dan Girardi sitting out to accommodate Kevin Klein’s return to the lineup for Sunday’s 6-3 defeat to the Ducks. Coach Alain Vigneault’s decision seemed to be based as much on the blue-line unit’s performance in Saturday’s 3-0 victory in […]
Read MoreThe US women’s hockey team might be getting support in its quest for equitable pay from the men who wear the same jersey. Allan Walsh, a well-connected hockey agent, disclosed Sunday on Twitter that American NHL players are thinking about refusing to play in their own world championships in solidarity if the women’s dispute with USA […]
Read MoreSAN JOSE, Calif. — So the question to Alain Vigneault off Saturday’s 3-0 victory in Los Angeles where the reunited Michael Grabner-Kevin Hayes-J.T. Miller unit generated a consistent ground game below the hash marks with a quick, effective forecheck that created several glorious opportunities was whether he believes Miller and Hayes are better when together. […]
Read MoreIt did not take long for Andrew Ladd to find out what it’s like to stroll into New York on a big contract and underperform. The Islanders signed the free-agent forward to a seven-year, $38.5 million deal this summer, the annual salary-cap hit of $5.5 million being carried in hopes of filling the void left […]
Read MoreYou can hear it in their voices more than in what they’re saying. You can see it in their play between the whistles more than in the emotion or frustration that boils over after the play. After six weeks of relentless struggle, the Islanders are burned out. The 3-1 loss to the Predators on Monday […]
Read MoreDoug Weight has already seen what an influx of youth and energy can bring to his worn-out Islanders team, and there is a chance that more of that could be coming soon. Following a 3-1 loss to the Predators on Monday night, the interim head coach was asked about bringing up productive players from AHL […]
Read MoreSAN 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 […]
Read MoreUSA 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. […]
Read MorePatrik 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 […]
Read MoreSAN 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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