GLENDALE, Ariz. — It was an act Rangers coach Alain Vigneault thought was both good and bad. Lias Andersson, the team’s 19-year-old prospect and No. 7-overall pick in this year’s draft, threw his silver medal to a fan in the stands Friday night in Buffalo after the Swedish team he captained lost to Canada in […]
Read MoreIslanders winger Josh Bailey, who suffered a lower-body injury in a loss to the Penguins on Friday, did not play in Sunday’s 5-4 shootout win over the Devils. Coach Doug Weight said the issue is not a “long-term thing”, but did not rule out Bailey missing time after the bye week, which runs from Monday […]
Read MoreThe streak is over. On Sunday at Barclays Center, the Islanders snapped a concerning five-game skid in dramatic fashion, coming from behind to beat the Devils, 5-4, in a shootout. Desperate for a win as they inched near the bottom of the Metropolitan Division, the Isles came together Saturday to try to find answers. “We […]
Read MoreLAS VEGAS — Just because it was better doesn’t mean it was good. And now the Rangers have a whole week to think about it. In the final game before their five-day bye week, and in the first trip here to face the Golden Knights, the Rangers were subpar for the second straight night, this […]
Read MoreLAS VEGAS — Gerard Gallant speaks fast, and sometimes his thoughts stumble upon themselves with a mumbling Canadian humility. But the smile on the face of the first coach in Vegas Golden Knights history was irrepressible. “Everything has gone pretty perfect for us so far,” Gallant said before his team played host to the Rangers […]
Read MoreRight place at the right time. see also Rangers wait too long to get going in loss to Golden Knights LAS VEGAS — Just because it was better doesn’t mean… A Rangers fan wearing a Rod Gilbert jersey got the ultimate surprise before Sunday night’s game against the Golden Knights in Las Vegas, when Gilbert, […]
Read MoreLAS VEGAS — There is very little reason to lose composure over the fact that coach Alain Vigneault decided second-year winger Pavel Buchnevich was the correct player to sit in the final game before the five-day bye week, a 2-1 loss to the Western Conference-leading Golden Knights out here on Sunday night. But it is […]
Read MoreThe Rangers are hopeful that Kevin Hayes will be available when they come out of the bye week to meet the Islanders on Saturday afternoon at the Garden. Hayes left a 2-1 defeat Sunday in Vegas following his first shift of the second period with a contusion he sustained taking a big, early first-period hit […]
Read MoreRegarding the Rangers, a bubble team in a bubble league: 1. It is just about impossible to find anyone in hockey who believes that Jim Dolan would authorize the Blueshirts to be sellers approaching the Feb. 26 trade deadline and thus jeopardize playoff gates that are far from a sure thing anyway. Indeed, there are […]
Read MoreHenrik Lundqvist, John Tavares and Taylor Hall have all secured a return trip to the NHL All-Star Game Wednesday, while Josh Bailey will join them as a first-timer. All four were named to the Metropolitan Division team for the annual event set to be played on Jan. 28 in Tampa Bay. It’s the fifth straight […]
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