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SUNRISE, Fla. — The only thing on the line anymore for these Rangers is pride, and they’re managing to scrounge up enough of it to save a little face. The Blueshirts came back to scratch out the loser’s point in a 4-3 shootout defeat to the Panthers on Saturday night, erasing deficits of 2-0 and […]

SUNRISE, Fla. — This is not the way Kevin Shattenkirk envisioned his first season with the Rangers. The 29-year-old defenseman left money on the table this summer to sign a four-year, $26.6 million deal with the team he rooted for while growing up in New Rochelle. The Rangers had made the playoffs for seven straights […]

Game 70 at the Garden on Monday night against the Candy Canes, so a dozen games will remain for Henrik Lundqvist to take something positive out of this Longest Season. “For me, the rest of the year is about wanting to be able to feel good about myself and about us,” Lundqvist, who was set […]

So now it’s 4-2-1 since the trade deadline for the Rangers’ best seven-game stretch since late December. “No one is going to take it easy on us because we have a young lineup or anything like that,” 24-year-old sophomore Jimmy Vesey said following Monday’s 6-3 Garden victory over the Hurricanes. “We have to go out […]

Alexandar Georgiev will get his second consecutive start in nets when the Blueshirts meet the Penguins at the Garden on Wednesday. “He’s a battler, I like his positioning and rebound control, he’s won his last two games,” coach Alain Vigneault said. “But at the end of the day, for us right now, it’s about ‘Do […]

The damage to Tony DeAngelo’s left ankle that he “sprained” crashing into the Garden boards 7:22 into the second period of Monday’s 6-3 victory over Carolina is at least equaled by the damage to his development that will be caused if, as seems likely, he is sidelined for the remainder of the season. “It’s not […]

There was a wide smile on Mika Zibanejad’s face after Wednesday’s wild affair, and a message about how his Rangers are playing in this strange time of turmoil after the trade-deadline roster purge. “We’ve got nothing to lose,” Zibanejad said after he scored twice, including the overtime winner, in a 4-3 victory over the Penguins […]

Rangerstown is filled with folks attempting to conjure ways for the Blueshirts to move into the entry draft’s top three if luck isn’t with the club at the lottery drawing, and yes, I see you there among the riffraff, Mr. General Manager Jeff Gorton. Entering Wednesday night’s NBCSN showcase game against the Penguins at the […]

They were the first two teammates to get to the hospital, and they broke down in tears at the sight of Mats Zuccarello, their good friend. Zuccarello was in the midst of a four-day period during the spring of 2015 when the Rangers winger couldn’t speak due to having taken a puck to the head […]

Regarding the Rangers, whose playoff elimination tragic number was 15 points (Columbus) and 14 points (New Jersey) prior to Blue Jackets-Flyers in Philadelphia on Thursday: 1. Of course and absolutely the Rangers should and will pursue Ilya Kovalchuk when the scoring machine hits the open market as a 35-year-old unrestricted free agent July 1. He […]