The Rangers’ momentum was long gone. Their dominant performance two days earlier didn’t mean anything anymore. The first period of Game 4 was scoreless, and Madison Square Garden was quiet and curious, anxiously waiting to see how long the battle with the Senators would remain a stalemate. No one knew what was coming next. Certainly, […]
Read MoreSean Avery has not been on the Rangers in five years, but the fans are still carrying on his spirit. The Garden faithful serenaded Senators defenseman Dion Phaneuf with a “sloppy seconds” chant during the Rangers’ 4-1 Game 4 rout of Ottawa that evened the Eastern Conference semifinal. It came after Phaneuf fought with Rangers defenseman […]
Read MoreOTTAWA — The challenge for the Rangers entering Saturday’s teeter-totter Game 5 here on Saturday afternoon is neither so much the trap nor containing Erik Karlsson as it is continuing to give the Senators the respect they did not earn through two of the most negligible playoff performances you’ve ever seen. To guard against overconfidence. […]
Read MoreOTTAWA — There is an abstract feeling the Rangers have utter control of their second-round series against the Senators going into Game 5 on Saturday afternoon at Canadian Tire Centre. It’s a feeling drawn not strictly from what has happened on the ice. With each team having held serve in its own building and the […]
Read MoreOTTAWA — If you asked two years ago where Kevin Hayes would be most utilized in the 2017 playoffs, a defensive-zone draw while holding a tight lead would not have been the first guess — if at all. Nevertheless, as the Rangers center readies for his 25th birthday Monday, he also appreciates how his game […]
Read MoreOTTAWA — Maybe the Rangers have worn him down, or maybe Erik Karlsson’s body finally is just giving in. Either way, the Blueshirts have found a way to somewhat marginalize the Senators’ superlative captain in this second-round series, so much so that Ottawa coach Guy Boucher told him to stay in the locker room for […]
Read MoreOTTAWA — Because the Rangers let it, this game teetered on the edge all afternoon. And now, their season is on the brink of ending. The Blueshirts dropped one more gut-busting game in Ottawa, a 5-4 overtime loss to the Senators in Game 5 of their second-round series on Saturday afternoon at Canadian Tire Centre. […]
Read MoreReality hurts. The Mets are digesting just how much it hurts, and it remains to be seen if they learn from the latest train wreck of injuries. Noah Syndergaard is gone until at least the end of July because of his torn lat — he is not allowed even to touch a baseball for six […]
Read MoreOTTAWA — A bounce or two went against them again, the net-crashing craze that has become a staple of pulled-goaltender-six-on-five hockey cost them again, but make no mistake, the Rangers got what they deserved in Saturday’s 5-4 overtime Game 5 defeat to the Senators. The Blueshirts had way too many players who delivered C-minus efforts […]
Read MoreOTTAWA — The Senators once again tried to goad the Rangers into a physical game, this time by changing their lineup. And once again, the Rangers didn’t bite. Ottawa coach Guy Boucher decided to bring in long-time agitator Chris Neil to make his debut this postseason, and despite him hardly contributing with just five agitating […]
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