MONTREAL — We know what they did. We know that on Tuesday night at the Garden with their very essence in question, the Rangers played their best game of the year when anything less would not have gotten the job done against Montreal in Game 4. And we know they will have to be even […]
Read MoreMONTREAL — It was the smallest smile and a nod in a crowded elevator. In the immediate aftermath of what had just happened, this was not the time for Rangers general manager Jeff Gorton to celebrate. But he did have an appropriate answer when asked if he saw this coming, a dramatic and utterly unpredictable […]
Read MoreMONTREAL — This was a twist on the old “Now You See Him, Now You Don’t,” for in this Game 5 on Thursday night, just when you became convinced you might never see Chris Kreider again make a play for the Rangers, there you saw No. 20 popping into the picture again and again and […]
Read MoreMONTREAL — At least one of the Rangers’ special teams is contributing. The Blueshirts’ penalty kill came up huge in their 3-2 overtime victory over the Canadiens in Game 5 of their first-round playoff series on Thursday night at Bell Centre. With the win, the Rangers took a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven series. The […]
Read MoreMONTREAL — The stats are in their favor. The Rangers took a dramatic 3-2 victory over the Canadiens in Game 5 of their first-round playoff series on Thursday night at Bell Centre. If history proves to be a proper forecast, their 3-2 edge in the best-of-seven series puts them in good shape to advance to […]
Read MoreMONTREAL — Mika Zibanejad is well aware of what’s going on around him — and all of the implications. So it’s no surprise he had been open about his struggles through the first three games of his first postseason as a Ranger, and was just as open about feeling a bit of redemption when he […]
Read MoreMONTREAL — Of course Kevin Klein was thinking about his future, which was only natural when the present left him wanting for attention. The Rangers, who took a 3-2 lead in their first-round series with the Canadiens with a 3-2 overtime win in Game 5 on Thursday night at Bell Centre, must also be wondering what […]
Read MoreNot until the morning. Not until Saturday morning will Henrik Lundqvist turn his focus to the Game 6 potential opening-round clincher at the Garden against the Canadiens that night. “I put so much energy into every game, that I won’t think about it until morning of game day,” Lundqvist told The Post following Thursday’s 3-2 […]
Read MoreMONTREAL — If you think the Canadiens were attacking Henrik Lundqvist with reckless abandon in the first five games of this series, what do you think is going to happen with their season on the line? So the alert is out for Lundqvist when his Rangers take the Garden ice with a chance to eliminate […]
Read MoreMONTREAL — When Brendan Smith was with the Red Wings for the first five months of the 2016-17 regular season, he didn’t get to see a lot of Rangers rookie defenseman Brady Skjei. But since Smith came over in a Feb. 28 trade and recently spending a good amount of time on a defensive pair […]
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