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TAMPA — Ryan McDonagh was done working out, and all the Rangers trainers had left the practice facility in Westchester to catch the team flight to Vancouver. But the captain, who was rehabbing his right-hand/wrist injury, stuck around. He turned on the television and sat there by himself, waiting to hear if he had been […]

MONTREAL — This is not the way to push for a playoff berth. Jonathan Drouin and Nikita Scherbak scored in the second period and the Canadiens beat the Islanders 3-1 on Wednesday night to extend their points streak to five games. Mathew Barzal scored his 18th of the season for the Islanders. They are winless […]

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — This isn’t so much a 2017-18 final push for the collection of athletes representing the Rangers, as it is a trial run for 2018-19. And though the picture for next season will not begin to crystalize until, A) a decision is made on the coaching staff; B) the draft lottery is […]

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Even at 28 days, this was the longest month of Henrik Lundqvist’s career. And after it ended following one of the longest nights of his tenure on which he faced a career-high matching 55 shots, the goaltender was even able to scare up a smile. “With what we went through with […]

CALGARY — The haunted looks worn by the Rangers the last couple of weeks were familiar ones, and do you know why? Because they were essentially the same ones the players presented on breakup day last year. For the first time in this run that can be measured either starting with the unexpected 2011-12 charge […]

CALGARY, Alberta — This city could have been home for John Gilmour, the fresh-faced defenseman who signed with the Rangers as a free agent following his 2015-16 senior season at Providence after having been the Flames’ seventh-round, 198th-overall selection in the 2013 entry draft. “My agent would have handled all of that, but I don’t […]

In Gary Bettman’s league of parity, it’s not easy for teams to know if they’re good or bad. That’s because the answer is they’re neither. And so that left another NHL trade deadline to come and go with only a few buyers and only a few sellers, with the rest of the general managers seemingly […]

CALGARY — There is focus on the future expressed through the organizational mandate issued on Feb. 8, the multiple trades enacted proximate to the Feb. 26 deadline and the number of new, fresh faces in the lineup. There has been focus on the past as well, manifested by the Feb. 25 Jean Ratelle No. 19 […]

As he set goals and expectations for himself before the season began, even Mathew Barzal didn’t expect anything quite like this. After playing two games with the Islanders last season before being sent back to juniors, the center just wanted to accomplish some simpler things this year like, for one, sticking in the NHL for […]

The Islanders are running out of time — and answers — to save a sinking ship. After scoring equalizers in the final six seconds of the first two periods, the Islanders had no comeback left for the third and fell to the Canadiens, 6-3, on Friday at Barclays Center. Starting the night four points out […]